English Explanatory Dictionary

microburin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A characteristic waste product from the ancient manufacture of lithic tools: a fragment of a lithic flake or blade that shows on its upper face the beginnings of a notch terminating in an oblique flection that ends in a very acute trihedral apex.

Word forms

microburin microburins

Etymology

From micro- + burin.

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