steinkern

[shtahyn-kern, -kurn, stahyn-]

stein·kern

[shtahyn-kern, -kurn, stahyn-]
noun Archaeology.
the fossilized outline of a hollow organic structure, as a skull or a mollusk shell, formed when mud or sediment consolidated within the structure and the structure itself disintegrated or dissolved.
Also called endocast.


Origin:
< German Steinkern literally, stone, pit (of a fruit), equivalent to Stein stone + Kern core, kernel
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Steinkern is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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