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Meaning of ODONTOLITE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\O*don"to*lite\, n. [Odonto- + -lite.] (Min.)
A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It
is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called {bone
turquoise}.
 
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