bilestone

English

Etymology

bile +‎ stone

Noun

bilestone (plural bilestones)

A gallstone, or biliary calculus.
- 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
  the oil of turpentine dissolved its fragments of bilestone

References

“bilestone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

belonites

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