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lithophyton
lithophyton
English
Noun
lithophyton (plural lithophyta)
- (obsolete) Coral.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- That Coral (which is a Lithophyton or stone-plant, and groweth at the bottom of the Sea) is soft under Water, but waxeth hard in the air [...] we have some reason to doubt [...].
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
References
- “‖lithophyton” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]