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Staurolite
Staurolite Stau"ro*lite, n. [Gr. ? a cross + -lite.] (Min.) A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite.
Staurolitic
Staurolitic Stau`ro*lit"ic, a. (Min.) Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.
Stauropus fagi
Lobster Lob"ster, n. [AS. loppestre, lopystre prob., corrupted fr. L. locusta a marine shellfish, a kind of lobster, a locust. Cf. Locust.] (Zo["o]l.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters. Lobster caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth (Stauropus fagi); -- so called from its form. Lobster louse (Zo["o]l.), a copepod crustacean (Nicotho["e] astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.
Stauroscope
Stauroscope Stau"ro*scope, n. [Gr. ? a cross + -scope.] (Crystallog.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
Staurotide
Staurotide Stau"ro*tide, n. [F. staurotide, from Gr. ? cruciform (from Gr. ? a cross) + ? form.] (Min.) Staurolite.

Meaning of Stauro from wikipedia

- Stauros (σταυρός) is a Gr**** word for a stake or an implement of capital punishment. The Gr**** New Testament uses the word stauros for the instrument of...
- instrument of Jesus' crucifixion (known in Latin as crux, in Gr**** as stauros) is generally taken to have been composed of an upright wooden beam to...
- indicating the coin value. The staurogram was first used to abbreviate stauros (σταυρός), the Gr**** word for cross, in very early New Testament m****cripts...
- they imitated, when they set up structures on which men are crucified. Stauros (cross) the vile engine is called, and it derives its vile name from him...
- writings are ambiguous. The Koine Gr**** terms used in the New Testament are stauros (σταυρός) and xylon (ξύλον). The latter means wood (a live tree, timber...
- Ancient Gr**** has two verbs for crucify: anastauroo (ἀνασταυρόω), from stauros (which in modern Gr**** only means "cross" but which in antiquity was used...
- decussata or saltire). The Gr**** equivalent of Latin crux "stake, gibbet" is stauros, found in texts of four centuries or more before the gospels and always...
- mantled porphyroblastic character. The name is derived from the Gr****, stauros for cross and lithos for stone in reference to the common twinning. Staurolite...
- He is also called Stauros (cross), and we frequently meet with references to the figure of Stauros. Speculations about the Stauros are older than Christianity...
- antiquity, the cross, i.e. the instrument of Christ's crucifixion (crux, stauros), was taken to be T-shaped, while the X-shape ("chiasmus") had different...