calamite noun.
['kalǝmʌɪt] M19.[mod. Latin Calamites genus name, formed as CALAMUS: see -ITE1.]Palaeontology. A reedlike plant of an extinct group related to the horsetails, found as fossils chiefly of Carboniferous age.
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