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OP To me, silex is name of my coffee maker. To Darwin it is a geolocical term, he used in describing some petrified tree trunks he found on a trip east of the Andes.
silex
n.
5L (gen. silicis), dissimulated < *scilec3 < *scelic3 < IE base *(s)kel3, to cut > SHELF, SHIELD6
1 silica, esp. in the form of flint or quartz
How do we know that he was telling us what he really thought about those petrified tree trunks? [just goofing-e]
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