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GLOSSOPETRA Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of GLOSSOPETRA is any of certain isolated fossil shark teeth.
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glossopetra - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
glōssopetra f (genitive glōssopetrae); first declension. A precious stone resembling the human tongue, now known to be a fossil shark tooth.
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Small Blessings - Tongue Stone, France - University of Oxford
As a result, the triangular objects came to be called glossopetrae, or 'tongue stones'. Tongue stones were widely believed to have medicinal properties, and ...
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glossopetra
‖ glossoˈpetra Obs. [mod.Lat. use of L. glōssopetra (Pliny), a stone said to have the shape of the human tongue, a. Gr. γλωσσοπέτρα, f. γλῶσσα tongue + πέτρα rock.] ? Some kind of fossil tooth.1668 Evelyn Diary 23 July, At the Royal Society, were presented divers glossa petra's. 1794 Sullivan View N...
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Glossopetra, meaning tongue stone and referring to petrified tooth of ...
The word glossopetra, also found in Latin texts, means tongue stone and refers to the petrified, somewhat tongue-shaped tooth of a shark.
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Shark tooth - Wikipedia
There are four basic types of shark teeth: dense flattened, needle-like, pointed lower with triangular upper, and non-functional.
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shark
▪ I. shark, n.1 (ʃɑːk) Also 6–7 sharke. [Of obscure origin. The word seems to have been introduced by the sailors of Captain (afterwards Sir John) Hawkins's expedition, who brought home a specimen which was exhibited in London in 1569. The source from which they obtained the word has not been ascert...
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Glossopetra, a Serpent's Tongue. Isolated tooth of Otodus ...
Glossopetra, a Serpent's Tongue. Isolated tooth of Otodus megalodon (probably from the Miocene of Malta), archival collections of the Stuttgarter ...
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glossopetra | Rabbitique - The Multilingual Etymology Dictionary
A precious stone resembling the human tongue, now known to be a fossil shark tooth. Etymology. Borrowed from Ancient Greek γλωσσοπέτρα.
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Nature in Stock - (glossopetrae or glossopetra)
In it he notes that the 'Glossopetrae' or 'tongue stones' of Pliny are in fact sharks teeth. This was also a conclusion alluded to a century before by Conrad ...
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Glossopétres de différentes grandeurs de l'Isle de Malthe Trans.
Glossopetra are fossil shark's teeth commonly found in Malta. The donor was a man named Frey, of Basel, Switzerland. He may have met Du Simitière during ...
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