Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A crude stone artifact, such as a flake.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rudely chipped flint implement (or what appears to be such) regarded, from its workmanship, as older than the paleoliths. Eoliths are found in the oldest Quaternary deposits of Europe.
Wiktionary
- n. Crudely chopped flints, believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such as glaciation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint); possibly the earliest tools
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἑός (eos, "dawn") + λίθος (lithos, "stone"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“From the beginning to the ripening of that phase of human life, from the first clumsy eolith of rudely chipped flint to the first implements of polished stone, was two or three thousand centuries, ten or fifteen thousand generations.”
Lists
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phrontistery - e
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ephod, epact, eozoic, eonism, ensiform, ensanguine, enoptromancy, enounce, enosimania, ennomic, enneagon, eolith and 616 more...
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lithophilia
Words made using "lith/o" where it means rock or stone, not including those formed in the body.
Yoinked from the list found here.xenolith, uranolith, trilith, stromatolith, spongolith, regolith, psammolithic, protolith, prepalaeolith, polylith, phytolith, photolith and 60 more...
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blafferty Hard to believe there's a word for "I thought it was an artifact, but it's just a rock." I think my dad used to call those "leavarites." May 12, 2011