stone-lily
Name for a fossil crinoid or encrinite, from its resemblance to a lily on its stalk.
| 1808 Parkinson Organic Rem. II. 174 The Encrinus, Lilium lapidium, or Stone Lily. 1828 G. Young Geol. Surv. Yorks. Coast 207 Zoophytes distinguished by the names Encrinites and Pentacrinites, or the more familiar term Stone lilies. 1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 154 Other Groups, such as the Stone Lilies and Sea Anemones. |