anthropolite

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noun

A petrified human body, or of any portion of it.

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Meanings

nounanthropolite (plural anthropolites)

plural anthropolites

  1. datedbiologyA petrified human body, or of any portion of it.

    It was in conglomerates of this kind that were discovered the famous Carib skeletons, known as anthropolites, that is, "stone men," one of which is preserved in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

    1901, Augustus Henry Keane, Central and South America, volume 2, page 401

Origin

From anthropo- + -lite.

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Translations

Portuguese antropólito
  • antropólitopetrification of the human body
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