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calamite

[ kal-uh-mahyt ]

noun

  1. any fossil plant of the genus Calamites and related genera of the Carboniferous Period, resembling oversized horsetails and constituting much of the coal used as fuel.


calamite

/ ˈ°ìæ±ôəˌ³¾²¹Éª³Ù /

noun

  1. any extinct treelike plant of the genus Calamites, of Carboniferous times, related to the horsetails
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦²¹±ô·²¹Â·³¾¾±Â·³Ù±ð·²¹²Ô [kal-, uh, -, mahy, -tee-, uh, n], adjective
  • ³¦²¹Â·±ô²¹³¾Â·¾±Â·³Ù´Ç¾±»å [k, uh, -, lam, -i-toid], adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of calamite1

1745–55; < New Latin Calamites the genus name, Latin ³¦²¹±ô²¹³¾Ä«³Ùŧ²õ < Greek °ì²¹±ô²¹³¾Ä«Ì³Ùŧ²õ reedlike. See calamus, -ite 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of calamite1

C19: from New Latin °ä²¹±ô²¹³¾Ä«³Ù±ð²õ type genus, from Greek °ì²¹±ô²¹³¾¾±³Ùŧ²õ reedlike, from kalamos reed
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Klaproth adds that he entirely agrees with the learned Jesuit, but maintains that the word calamite, to designate the little green frog, called to-day le graisset, la raine, or la rainette, is essentially Greek.

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He had lately obtained a specimen of calamite with the bark on which showed a nucleal cellular pith, surrounded by canals running lengthwise down the stem; outside of these canals wedges of true vascular structure; and lastly, a cellular bark.

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Mr. Duncan, after next referring to the remains of what he deems a land plant, derived from the same deposit, and which, though sadly mutilated, presents not a little of the appearance of the naked framework of a frond of Cyclopterus Hibernicus divested of the leaflets, goes on to describe the apparent calamite of the formation.

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The best preserved vegetable remain yet found in Denholm Hill quarry," he says, "is the radical portion of what we cannot hesitate to call a species of calamite.

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In its lowest fossiliferous beds we detect a Lycopodite which not a little resembles one of the commonest of our club mosses,—Lycopodium clavatum,—with a minute fern and a large striated plant resembling a calamite, and evidently allied to an existing genus of Acrogens, the equisetaceæ.

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