xenolith (n.)

1894, from xeno- "foreign, strange" + -lith "stone."

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before vowels, xen-, word-forming element meaning "strange, foreign; stranger, foreigner," from Greek xenos "a guest, stranger, foreigner, refugee, guest-friend, one entitled to hospitality," cognate with Latin hostis, from PIE root *ghos-ti- "stranger, guest, host." "The term was politely used of any one whose name was unknown" [Liddell & Scott].

-lith

word-forming element meaning "stone, rock," from Modern Latin -lithus or French -lithe (see -lith).

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xenolith (n.)

(geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded;

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