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bufonite

/'bju:fә,nait/

📖 中文释义

  1. 蟾蜍石
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified
  2. teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts
  3. (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations;
  4. toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in
  5. the head of a toad.