stinkstone

English

Etymology

stink +‎ stone

Noun

stinkstone (countable and uncountable, plural stinkstones)

1. (mineralogy) One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar that emit a foetid odour on being struck.

Synonyms

• swinestone

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “stinkstone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• knottiness