Definition for AS'TER-O-PODE, or AS-TER-O-PO'DI-UM

AS'TER-O-PODE, or AS-TER-O-PO'DI-UM, n. [Gr. αςηρ, a star, πους, ποδος, a foot.]

A kind of extraneous fossil, of the same substance with the astrite, to which it serves as the base. – Encyc.

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