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Definition of Calamites
1. calamite [n] - See also: calamite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calamites
Literary usage of Calamites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"Description of the anatomy of calamites, «.. Stems. b. Leaves. c. Roots. d. Cones.
No fossils are better known to collectors of Coal-Measure plants than the ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"The mode of growth of these plants is stated almost in the same terms, and
illustrated by figures, in my paper on " Upright calamites," in the 'Journal of ..."
3. Antediluvian Phytology: Illustrated by a Collection of the Fossil Remains of by Edmund Tyrell. Artis (1825)
"calamites approximates. Stem arborescent, jointed ; joints very short, intercepted
by distinct articulations, with small compressed tubercles, ..."
4. The Wonders of Geology: Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena by Gideon Algernon Mantell, Thomas Rupert Jones (1858)
"21 and 35 ; also TT Wilkinson's • See Dawson's remarks on Upright calamites at
Pictou, Journ.Geol. fossil upright and rooted trees at Bura\^ -, \AWI. wa&. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Fossils of Pennsylvania and Neighboring States Named in by J. Peter Lesley (1889)
"calamites disjunctus. ... calamites nodosus of Brongniart, and calamites com-
munis, are accounted synonyms by ..."
6. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1854)
"calamites in the coal formation, more especially in the shale than the sandstone
beds. ... I. Analysis of the interior grey mass of crushed calamites ..."
7. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE FRUIT OF calamites. BY WM. CARRUTHERS, ESQ., FLS, Botanical
Department, British Museum. (PLATE LXX.) Rudolph Ludwig figured and ..."
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