Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A petrified spiral seed-vessel of plants of the genus Chara, found in fresh-water deposits, and formerly supposed to be a shell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) The petrified fruit of the
Chara hispida , a species of stonewort. Seestonewort .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun paleontology The
petrified fruit of Chara hispida, a species ofstonewort .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek circle, ring + fruit.
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