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Bufonite
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.