[f. ALCYON-IUM + -ITE a formative of names of minerals and fossils.] A fossil zoophyte related to Alcyonium.
1822. J. Flint, Lett. fr. Amer., 261. The rocks contain … millepores, favocites, alcyonites, corals [etc.].
1865. W. White, East. Eng., II. 174. Agates, carnelians, Alcyonites … may be picked up by those who know how to look for them.
