farcilite

English

Etymology

farcical +‎ -lite, in the Latin sense of the word farce which means to stuff or to season, because the composite mineral is "stuffed" with quartz nodules. See puddingstone.

Noun

farcilite (plural farcilites)

  1. (mineralogy, obsolete) Pudding stone.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for farcilite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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