Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A growing together; concretion; a concreted mass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union.
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- noun obsolete
concretion
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Examples
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On viewing the subject in this light, the question that springs directly is, (while the lithic diathesis is common to individuals of all ages and both sexes,) why the lithic sediment should present in the form of concrement in some and not in others?
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
hernesheir commented on the word concrement
Its a noun. Cf. concreture.
October 29, 2012