"antholite" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1858, Charles Lyell, “Supplement to the Fifth Edition of a Manual of Elementary Geology”, in The British Review, volume 28:",
          "text": "He considers this Antholite from the coal to be \"the spike of a very highly organised flowering plant in full flower,\", p. 20.",
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          "ref": "1872 February, William Carruthers, “Notes on some Fossil Plants”, in Geological Magazine, volume 9, page 53:",
          "text": "Göppert , in his Permian Flora , figures an Antholite (pl. xxi., fig. 1-3), which he considers to be teh inflorescence of Nöggerathia, a genus placed by him among the monocotyledons; while Ettingshausen, on the other hand, believes teh forms he found in the Coal-Measures at Stradonitz to be the fruits of Calamites (\"Steinkohlenflora Stradonitz,\" pl. v. fig. 1-3).",
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          "text": "It is not, as you have perhaps surmised, a work of sculpture, but it is an antholite, or fossil blossom, brought, with others of the same kind, from the world to which I am native.",
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          "ref": "1878, Joseph Henry Collins, Mineralogy - Volume 2, page 188:",
          "text": "Antholite is fibrous or asbestiform, grey to brown; […] Cummingtonite is much like antholite, gey to brown; fibrous;",
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          "ref": "1880, Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 - Volume 3, page 559:",
          "text": "In thin section, the radiated variety of amphibole, antholite ( possibly true anthophyllite ) , predominates in closely matted groups, made up of colorless to brownish ( ochreous ) fibres, which polarize strongly between the crossed nicols.",
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          "ref": "1894, A. P. Coleman, “Antholite from Elzivir, Ontario”, in The American Journal of Science, volume 148, page 272:",
          "text": "It seems to correspond most nearly in chemical composition to some of the fibrous forms of monoclinic amphibole, e.g. antholite or kuppferite.",
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