alectorian

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of alectoria.

   “Stones of baser sort, and yet of singular vertue, are the Chalydonie, or Swallowstone, found in the mawes of young swallowes—against madnesse: and the Alectorian, or Cockes stone, of a waterie color, found in the maw of a cocke, or capon, after hee bee nine years olde—above all commended for giving strength and courage! and wherewith (as it is reported) the famous Milo-Critonien always stood invincible.”

   “Who would not carry about him the alectorian stone, which, held in the mouth, ensures the mastery of the event, appeases thirst, and quells the ardours of the heart?”

   “Against such a peril I had provided certain amulets made of the stone alectorian, which groweth in the gizzard of a cock hatched on a moonless night when Saturn burneth in a human sign and the lord of the third house is in the ascendant.”

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of alectorioid.

   “Howe has left R. thrausta in the genus Alectoria, where it was placed by Acharius; the filamentous cortex is Alectorian in character, and fruits are unknown.”

   “The mountain tundras in western Verkhoyansk, are frequently fragmented; the alectorian tundras are usually continuous.”

   “Sections of lichen (mostly alectorian) tundra are predominant in both subzones; moss-covered and hummocky-cotton grass tundras (in the Lena river delta) are confined to the excessively moist areas.”