adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A stone tool or projectile.
2. 2
   A medicine that prevents stone in the bladder.
3. 3
   A lithic fragment: a piece of another rock eroded down to sand size.

   "Silty fine sandstone: poorly sorted; 50% quartz, 30% fossils, 10% lithics, 10% feldspar"

Adjective

1. 1
   Relating to stone.

   "lithic architecture"

2. 2
   Relating to rock.
3. 3
   Relating to lithium.
4. 4
   Relating to the formation of uric acid concretions (stones) in the bladder and other parts of the body.

   "lithic diathesis"

5. 5
   pertaining to Native American culture before circa 8,500 BCE. capitalized, often

Adjective

1. 1
   relating to or composed of stone wordnet
2. 2
   of or containing lithium wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

adamantflintygrimhardmarblelikepaleo-indian

Example

More examples

"Lithic tools are studied by archaeologists."

Etymology

From lith- + -ic.

Related phrases

lithic acidlithic mulchuric acid

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