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steinkern

[ shtahyn-kern, -kurn, stahyn- ]

noun

, Archaeology.
  1. 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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of steinkern1

< German Steinkern literally, stone, pit (of a fruit), equivalent to Stein stone + Kern core, kernel

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