anthropolite

English

Etymology

From anthropo- +‎ -lite.

Noun

anthropolite (plural anthropolites)

1. (paleontology, dated) A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
   • 1901, Augustus Henry Keane, Central and South America, volume 2, page 401:

     It was in conglomerates of this kind that were discovered the famous Carib skeletons, known as anthropolites, that is, "stone men," one of which is preserved in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

Translations

petrification of the human body

• Portuguese: antropólito m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “anthropolite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)