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From farcical + -lite, in the Latin sense of the word farce which means to stuff or to season, because the composite mineral is "stuffed" with quartz nodules. See puddingstone.
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From farcical + -lite, in the Latin sense of the word farce which means to stuff or to season, because the composite mineral is "stuffed" with quartz nodules. See puddingstone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.