geode
- a hollow concretionary or nodular stone often lined with crystals.
- the hollow or cavity of this.
- any similar formation.
Origin of geode
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Historical Examples of geode
The geode is a spherical and apparently solid stone, but when broken is found to be hollow and coated with crystals.
The Smoky GodWillis George Emerson
The geode has a hollow cell within, lined with beautiful crystals of many colors.
First Across the ContinentNoah Brooks
No date; no place mentioned; we note the suggestion that it was only a geode, which had been upon the ground in the first place.
The Book of the DamnedCharles Fort
A geode is a hollow shell of stone, usually quartz, lined with crystals pointing toward the center.
The Chautauquan, Vol. III, March 1883The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle
Geode, an irregular shaped stone, containing a small cavity.
A Manual of the Antiquity of ManJ. P. MacLean
geode
- a cavity, usually lined with crystals, within a rock mass or nodule
Word Origin for geode
Word Origin and History for geode
rounded stone with a hollow center lined with crystals, 1670s, from French géode, from Latin geodes, from Greek geodes "earthy, earth-like," from ge "earth" (Homeric gaia; see Gaia) + -oides, adjective suffix, "characterized by." Perhaps so called in reference to the "earthy" minerals inside.
geode
(jē′ōd′)- A cystlike space with or without an epithelial lining, usually observed in subarticular bone in arthritic disorders.
geode
- A small, hollow, usually rounded rock lined on the inside with inward-pointing crystals. Geodes form when mineral-rich water entering a cavity in a rock undergoes a sudden change in pressure or temperature, causing crystals to form from the solution and line the cavity's walls.