toadstone
Noun
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Noun
toadstone
- A small stone, once believed to be a jewel embedded in the head of a toad, worn as an amulet.
- (geology) A soft, earthy variety of trap-rock of a brownish-grey colour, looking like an argillaceous deposit.
- 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University 2004, p. 162:
- Rowley-Rag appeared to be the same thing as basalt and toadstone resembled some species of lava.
- 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University 2004, p. 162:
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