stone lily

American  

noun

1. a fossil crinoid.

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stone-lily British  

noun

1. the fossil of any of several species of sea lily or crinoid

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Etymology

Origin of stone lily

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

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From BBC

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From The Guardian

This was really an animal, but it looked somewhat like a closed pond lily with a long stem, and people used to call it the stone lily.

From Project Gutenberg

The stone lily in the child's pocket made it evident that he himself had been in the moonshiners' cavern, the only one known to the vicinity, or that the stone had been given to him by some frequenter of that den—hardly to be supposed previous to the catastrophe.

From Project Gutenberg

Stone lily, coloured now in sunny chrome, Or washed with rose, As long days close, And weary English suns go west'ring home, Look East, and hither, where there turns to rest A homing heart that beats an English breast.

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