anthropolite

English

Etymology

From anthropo- +‎ -lite.

Noun

anthropolite (plural anthropolites)

1. (paleontology, dated) A petrified 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

References

• “anthropolite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.