Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In geology, resembling a little stake.
  • Paxillate.

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

  • adjective (Geol.) Resembling a little stake.

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  • adjective geology Resembling a small stake.

Etymologies

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Latin paxillus a small stake.

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