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aerolite

American  
[air-uh-lahyt] / ˈɛər əˌlaɪt /
Also aerolith

noun

  1. a meteorite consisting mainly of stony matter.


aerolite British  
/ ˌɛərəˈlɪtɪk, ˈɛərəˌlaɪt /

noun

  1. a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of aerolite

First recorded in 1805–15; aero- + -lite

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Last week Harvey Harlow Nininger, Colorado meteorite expert, revealed discovery of a 700-lb. aerolite by a farmer near Hugoton, Kans.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buried a yard deep in the ground, it was the most massive aerolite ever turned up in that State.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Some days elapsed without any object, aerolite or otherwise, being described, and without any trumpet notes being heard in the atmosphere.

From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules

Aegos Potamos, on the aerolite of, 117, 122.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von

If a philosopher that way had come, He would have seized the waif with great delight, And honored it as an aerolite.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

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