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Definition of Dysodile

1. n. An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

Definition of Dysodile

1. Noun. (minerology) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly foetid odour when burning. ¹

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Definition of Dysodile

1. dysodyle [n -S] - See also: dysodyle

Medical Definition of Dysodile

1. An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odour when burning. Origin: Gr. Ill smell, from ill-smelling; ill, bad + to smell. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dysodile

Literary usage of Dysodile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Petroleum Industry by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1916)
"dysodile.—A very inflammable, flexible, slightly clastic, yellow or greenish gray mineral ... See dysodile. Earth Wax.—See Ozokerite. Earthy Brown Coal. ..."

2. Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick (1898)
"In the Mersey coal-field the dysodile is found. This inflammable shale is a sandy substance full of resinous particles. There is a deposit of 300 feet of ..."

3. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1884)
"dysodile GROUP.— Con taming sulphur in place of part of the oxygen. 817. ... dysodile Appendix. — 819. ..."

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