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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of clay or fine-grained silicate of alumina from the coal-formation of Planitz in Saxony, formerly supposed to possess valuable medicinal properties, whence it had its ancient name of terra miraculosa Saxoniæ. Also called
lithomarge . Sometimes erroneously spelledterratolite , as if from Latin terra, earth.
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