Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the wheel-like joints of encrinites, which occur in great profusion in certain limestones, and are commonly called screwstones, wheelstones, or St. Cuthbert's beads.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Paleon.) A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.

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  • noun paleontology A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.

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en- +‎ trochite

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