syciteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Ancient Greek [Term?] fig-like.

名詞

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.