rostrocarinate

[ros-troh-kar-uh-neyt, -nit]

ros·tro·car·i·nate

[ros-troh-kar-uh-neyt, -nit]
noun
a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies.

Origin:
1950–55; rostro- (combining form representing Latin rōstrum rostrum) + carinate
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Rostrocarinate has a plethora of syllables.
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a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S.
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.
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