sycite

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?] fig-like.

Noun

sycite (plural sycites)

  1. (mineralogy, obsolete) A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.
    • 1953, Robert Fleming Heizer, Albert B. Elsasser, “Some Archaeological Sites and Cultures of the Central Sierra Nevada”, in Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, number 21:
      They were first ground by the squaws by placing them on mitatia (hollowed out granite or sycite stones) and crushed with a flat or cylindrical pestle made from the same character of stone.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sycite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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