gyrogonite
English
Gyrogonites from various species of Tolypella.
Etymology
Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle, ring”) + γόνος (gónos, “fruit”)
Noun
gyrogonite (plural gyrogonites)
- (paleontology) The petrified fruit of several species of stonewort
- 1833, Charles Lyell, chapter XX, in Principles of Geology […] , volume III, London: John Murray, page 280:
- The shells and gyrogonites also agree specifically with some of those most common in the French deposits […]
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References
- gyrogonite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913