lithic

comparative more lithic · superlative most lithic

1. Relating to stone.

   lithic architecture

2. geographyRelating to rock.
3. chemistryRelating to lithium.
4. medicineRelating to the formation of uric acid concretions (stones) in the bladder and other parts of the body.

   lithic diathesis

5. capitalizedoftenarchaeologypertaining to Native American culture before circa 8,500 BCE.

   Synonyms: Paleo-Indian

plural lithics

1. anthropologyA stone tool or projectile.
2. A medicine that prevents stone in the bladder.
3. geographyA lithic fragment: a piece of another rock eroded down to sand size.

   Silty fine sandstone: poorly sorted; 50% quartz, 30% fossils, 10% lithics, 10% feldspar

   1983, Richard Squires, Mark Filewicz, Cenozoic Geology of the Simi Valley Area, Southern California