Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fossil tooth; specifically, a fossil tooth or bone of a bright-blue color, occurring in the Tertiary. Compare
bone-turquoise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called
bone turquoise .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
fossil tooth coloured a bright blue byiron phosphate , used as animitation turquoise .
Etymologies
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odonto- + -lite
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Examples
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So that around the bones there eventually appears a beautiful turquoise casing; the bone centre is also coloured like its casing, though not entirely losing its bony characteristics, so that it really forms a kind of ossified turquoise, surrounded by real turquoise, and this is called the "bone turquoise" or "odontolite."
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
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