ejectamenta
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It’s possible I am the only reader whose heart will sing at Miller’s fondness for synthetic ejectamenta, but I would happily have read more.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2014
These may have been the ejectamenta of a whirlwind.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
At other times, however, the ejectamenta give evidence of having been arranged by the action of water, the materials having been sifted and spread out in more or less regular layers.
From Geology by Geikie, James
The interstratification of loam and volcanic ejectamenta was probably occasioned by the fluviatile mud having gradually enveloped the cones of loose scoriae after they were completely formed.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
They are all embedded in a light porous tuff, resembling in colour and mineral composition the ejectamenta of several of the latest eruptions of Denise.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
