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Definition of Encrinites
1. encrinite [n] - See also: encrinite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encrinites
Literary usage of Encrinites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The seas of hot climates produce larger and more complicated ones, such as the Encr.
asterias, Blum.; his aster, L. Fossil encrinites however are very ..."
2. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1837)
"1,) one of the arms is under the process of being reproduced, as Crabs and Lobsters
reproduce their lost claws and legs, and many encrinites Moniliformis. ..."
3. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1857)
"The old articulata abound in marks of ingenious mechanical contrivance.
The trilobites were covered over back and Fig. 95. Fig. 9,3. encrinites ..."
4. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1840)
"... OF encrinites. ART. VIII.— On a recent species of Crinoidea, or encrinites,
constituting the type of a new genus ..."
5. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"... distinctly divided into beds, from one to six inches thick, so as to form a
series of steps. This limestone contains trilobites, encrinites, ..."
6. Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell (1839)
"Subdivisions of the Oolitic group — Fossil shells — Corals in the calcareous
divisions only — Buried forest of encrinites in Bradford clay — Changes in ..."
7. Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell (1845)
"Subdivisions of the Oolitic group—Fossil shells—Corals in the calcareous divisions
only—Buried forest of encrinites in Bradford clay—Changes in organic life ..."
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