antholite

plural antholites

1. biologyA fossil plant resembling a petrified flower.

   He considers this Antholite from the coal to be "the spike of a very highly organised flowering plant in full flower,", p. 20.

   1858, Charles Lyell, “Supplement to the Fifth Edition of a Manual of Elementary Geology”, in The British Review, volume 28

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   Göppert , in his Permian Flora , figures an Antholite (pl. xxi., fig. 1-3), which he considers to be teh inflorescence of Nöggerathia, a genus placed by him among the monocotyledons; while Ettingshausen, on the other hand, believes teh forms he found in the Coal-Measures at Stradonitz to be the fruits of Calamites ("Steinkohlenflora Stradonitz," pl. v. fig. 1-3).

   1872 February, William Carruthers, “Notes on some Fossil Plants”, in Geological Magazine, volume 9, page 53

   It is not, as you have perhaps surmised, a work of sculpture, but it is an antholite, or fossil blossom, brought, with others of the same kind, from the world to which I am native.

   1948, Clark Ashton Smith ·, Genius Loci, and Other Tales, page 65

2. A fibrous form of amphibole.

   Antholite is found in irregular bundles of strong fibres associated with altered enstatite, calcite, dolomite etc

   1915, Memoir - Issue 74, page 22

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   Antholite is fibrous or asbestiform, grey to brown; […] Cummingtonite is much like antholite, gey to brown; fibrous;

   1878, Joseph Henry Collins, Mineralogy - Volume 2, page 188

   In thin section, the radiated variety of amphibole, antholite ( possibly true anthophyllite ) , predominates in closely matted groups, made up of colorless to brownish ( ochreous ) fibres, which polarize strongly between the crossed nicols.

   1880, Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 - Volume 3, page 559

   It seems to correspond most nearly in chemical composition to some of the fibrous forms of monoclinic amphibole, e.g. antholite or kuppferite.

   1894, A. P. Coleman, “Antholite from Elzivir, Ontario”, in The American Journal of Science, volume 148, page 272