A"er*o*lite (#), n. [Aero- + -lite: cf. F. a'erolithe.] Meteor.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

⇒ Some writers limit the word to stony meteorites.

 

© Webster 1913.

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