asterophyllite
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English
Etymology
Ancient Greek, meaning "star leaf".
Noun
asterophyllite (plural asterophyllites)
- (paleontology) A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “asterophyllite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)