Entrochal

En´tro`chal

Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; - used of a kind of stone or marble.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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The other Cabinet contains choice specimens from Cornwall and other Counties in this Kingdom, a select collection from Scotland, and a specimen of Shell-Limestone from Schallpenstadt in the Duchy of Brunswick, containing the head of an Enchrynus, of the fragments of which species of Petrifaction the Entrochal [crinoidal] "Marble of this County is formed" (Watson, 1811).

The Devonshire mineral collection of Chatsworth House: an 18th century survivor and its restoration

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Permutations of United States capitals

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