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hornstone

/hawrn-stohn/US // ˈhɔrnˌstoʊn //UK // (ˈhɔːnˌstəʊn) //

角石,牛角石,喇叭石,角岩

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Archaic.

    • : a variety of quartz resembling flint.

Examples

  • Dark grey porphyritic hornstone, approaching to compact felspar, with imbedded crystals of felspar.

  • I also picked up a detached mass of argillaceous oxide of iron, and some fragments of striped hornstone.

  • About ten miles north of this point, the upper calcareous, or surface rock, embraces nodules of hornstone.

  • The occurrence of a hard variety of hornstone, which is not flint, is apparently confined to the compact, fetid variety.

  • Among the rubbish of the diggings, fragments of hornstone occur.