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Definition of Earstones

1. earstone [n] - See also: earstone

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Earstones

earpicks earpiece earpieces earplug earplugs earreach earring earringed earrings ears

earshot earshots earsplitting earst earstone earstones (current term) earth earth Earth's crust Earth's surface

earth-ball earth-closet earth-eating earth-god earth-goddess earth-nut pea Earth-received time earth-tongue earth-tongue earthball

Literary usage of Earstones

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1. Scientific Investigations by Great Britain Fishery Board for Scotland, Fishery Board for Scotland (1907)
"In fiat fishes, the earstones form round or oval discs, so thin that the alternating concentric layers are easily made out. The number of such layers, ..."

2. Fishes of Australia: A Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the by David George Stead (1906)
"These "pearls" are the otoliths or "earstones," which, while occurring in the heads of ... These earstones are closely connected with the sense of hearing, ..."

3. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1841)
"... and the former contains certain calcareous bodies, of an enamel-like texture and extreme hardness, termed otolithes, or earstones, suspended by means of ..."

4. A Manual of Physiology and of the Principles of Disease by Edward Dillon Mapother (1864)
"Particles of carbonate of lime are always found in the endolymph, consolidated into earstones or otoliths in fishes, and an ear-dust or otoconia in other ..."

5. Buckmaster's Elements of animal physiology by John Angell, John Charles Buckmaster (1866)
"The saccule and the utricle contain small roundish masses of crystalline grains of carbonate of lime, termed otolithes, or otoconia • (earstones, ..."

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