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Bufonite
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; - so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bufonite'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/bufonite.html. 1828.