silex [sahy-leks] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- flint; silica.
Origin of silex 1585–95; Latin silex, stem silic- hard stone, flint, boulder Examples from the Web for silex Historical Examples of silex
They had implements of copper, as well as of silex, and porphyries.
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History
Henry R. Schoolcraft
The tower we see there was that of the windmill which ground the silex.
Jetta S. Wolff
At the bottom of each pore a thin lamella of silex, perforated by four to six irregular, roundish, double-contoured porules.
Ernst Haeckel
Other filling material as silicate of soda, borax, talc or silex are used.
E. G. Thomssen
All this rich land was thickly strewed with small fragments of fossil wood, in silex, agate, and chalcedony.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
Thomas Mitchell
British Dictionary definitions for silex silex noun
- a type of heat-resistant glass made from fused quartz
Word Origin for silex C16: from Latin: hard stone, flint