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Definition of Calamite

Calamite
Calamite Cal"a*mite, n. [L. calamus a reed: cf. F. calamite.] (Paleon.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.

Meaning of Calamite from wikipedia

- Calamites is a genus of extinct arborescent (tree-like) horsetails to which the modern horsetails (genus Equisetum) are closely related. Unlike their...
- The pont de la Calamité was a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada. Among the last in Quebec, 34 covered bridges were constructed in Abitibi...
- that start or finish at the county border: Antoine Marsh (Roquemaure) Calamite Covered Bridge [1927] (La Sarre) Culture House (La Sarre) Interpretation...
- Arthropitys. Asterophyllites (or incorrectly Asterophyllum). Astromyelon. Calamites. C. carinatus. C. suckowi. C. undulatus. Calamocarpon. Calamostachys....
- of bald cypress, living in mires with waterlogged soils. The tree-like calamites, distant relatives of modern horsetails, lived in coal swamps and grew...
- Caulopteris were tree ferns. The Equisetales included the common giant form Calamites, with a trunk diameter of 30 to 60 cm (24 in) and a height of up to 20 m...
- and warm. Extensive swamps developed with mosses, ferns, horsetails and calamites. Air-breathing arthropods evolved and invaded the land where they provided...
- December 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024. "L'archipel de Mayotte en état de "calamité naturelle exceptionnelle", le président Macron attendu". France 24 (in...
- Maria Machado as Paula Wieck Devigne, the mother of Elle Evelyne Didi as Calamité Jean Gaven as Leballech, the boss of the sawmill François Cluzet as Mickey...
- best known examples of pith casts are in the Carboniferous Sphenophyta (Calamites) and cordaites (Artisia). Authigenic mineralisations. These can provide...