uˈranolite rare.
[See urano-1 a and -lite.]
An aerolite or meteoric stone.
| 1815 Monthly Mag. XXXIX 299 The name of uranolite has long appeared to me to be better suited to bodies..which tend towards the earth through that boundless space in which the stars move. 1860 Worcester (citing Hutton). |
So uˈranolith. [-lith.]
| 1889 C. A. Young Gen. Astron. xviii. 430 The pieces which fall from it are called..uranoliths (heaven-stones), or simply meteoric stones. |