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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, a tube-like marking in sandstone and other strata, which resembles the burrow of a worm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.
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- noun geology A
tube -likemarking found insandstone and otherstrata .
Etymologies
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Latin forare to bore + -lite.
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