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Webster 1913 Edition

Bufonite

Bu′fon-ite

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Noun.
[L.
bufo
toad: cf. F.
bufonite
.]
(Paleon.)
An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oölite and chalk formations; toadstone; – so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bufonite

BU'FONITE

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Noun.
[L. bufo, a toad.] Toadstone, or fossil-teeth of the anarrhicas or sea-wolf, formerly much esteemed for its imaginary virtues and worn in rings. It was named from an opinion that it was found in the head of a toad.

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