“dunstone”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

dunstone

释义

dunstone Mining and Geol.|ˈdʌnstəʊn|
[f. dun a.; cf. also dun-courses, dun-row, s.v. dun a. 3 c.]
Stone of a dun or dull brown colour; applied locally to different sedimentary rocks, as magnesian limestone, ironstone, sandstone, and sometimes to igneous rocks, such as dolerite.
1777G. Forster Voy. round World I. 20 A few..of the kind which the Derbyshire miners call dunstone.1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 19 The soil generally consists of a hazel-coloured loam, or free dunstone.1870R. S. Hawker Prose Wks. (1893) 1 One wide, wild stretch of rocky moorland, broken with masses of dunstone.1887H. B. Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 577 Dolerites are exposed west of St. Austell..In places they are called ‘Dunstones’.

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