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Webster 1913 Edition

(ăsˊtẽr-ŏf′ĭl-līt)

Noun.

[Gr.

ἀστήρ

star +

φύλλον

leaf.]

(Paleon.)

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

asterophyllite ‎(plural asterophyllites)

(paleontology) A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.