Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fossilized footprint.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fossil footprint; the fossilized track or trace of an animal: used mostly in compounds: as, ornithichnite, sauroidichnite, tetrapodichnite. See these words, and cut under footprint.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A fossil footprint.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A fossilized footprint or track of an animal.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek ikhnos, track + –ite.]

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