Etymology

luna cornea

Today it means: horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass Full definition →

Latin cornea
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  1. Latin · derived fromcornea“horn”
  2. English todayluna cornea

See Luna (“silver in alchemy”), and Latin cornea (“horn”), which it resembles.

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