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Geode

noun
1.
(mineralogy) a hollow rock or nodule with the cavity usually lined with crystals.





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"Geode" Quotes from Famous Books



... I have lost," Leslie answered, smiling. "Something I have a very presumptuous wish to find. A splendid garnet geode, if ...
— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... inches in diameter and having the appearance of a flat rosette of fine black lace, in open pattern with small diamonds thickly strung on every thread; a brilliant, sparkling mass of gems. After Mr. McDonald had carefully removed a geode from the other little chamber, he slid down into a fourth, the last of the diminutive suite, having sufficient height to allow a sitting posture with raised head, and opened the small jewel case, while I examined the place it came from. Here ...
— Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills • Luella Agnes Owen


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