Morion (other)
Morion may refer to: * Morion (helmet), a type of military helmet * Morion (mineral), a variety of smoky quartz * ''Morion'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal fami ...

Morion (helmet)
A morion (Spanish: ''morrión'') is a type of open-faced combat helmet originally from the Kingdom of Castile (Spain), used from the beginning 16th to early 17th centuries, usually having a flat brim and a crest from front to back. Its introduction was contemporaneous with the exploration of North, Central and South America. Explorers such as Hernando de Soto and Coronado may have supplied them to their foot soldiers in the 1540s. History The iconic morion, though popularly identified with early Spanish explorers and conquistadors, was not in use until after the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés or Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Incas in South America. It was widely used by the Spanish, but thirty to forty years later was also common among foot soldiers of many other European nationalities. Low production costs aided its popularity and dissemination, although officers and elite guards would have theirs elaborately engraved to display their wealth and status. The ...
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Morion (mineral)
Smoky quartz is a brownish grey, translucent variety of quartz that ranges in clarity from almost complete transparency to an almost-opaque brownish-gray or black crystals. The smoky color results from free silicon formed from the silicon dioxide by natural irradiation. Varieties Morion is a very dark brown to black opaque variety. Morion is the German, Danish, Spanish and Polish synonym for smoky quartz. The name is from a misreading of ''mormorion'' in Pliny the Elder. Cairngorm is a variety of smoky quartz found in the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. It usually has a smoky yellow-brown colour, though some specimens are greyish-brown. It is used in Scottish jewellery and as a decoration on kilt pins and the handles of (anglicised: ''sgian-dubhs'' or ''skean dhu''). The largest known cairngorm crystal is a specimen kept at Braemar Castle. Uses Smoky quartz is common and was not historically important, but in recent times it has become a popular gemstone, especially for je ...
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Morion (beetle)
''Morion'' is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal fami ..., containing the following species: * '' Morion angustus'' Chaudoir, 1880 * '' Morion aridus'' Allen, 1968 * '' Morion attenuatus'' Barker, 1922 * '' Morion australis'' Castelnau, 1867 * '' Morion baloghi'' Horvatovich, 1976 * '' Morion biroi'' Horvatovich, 1976 * '' Morion bithynicus'' Schauberger, 1925 * '' Morion boliviensis'' Allen, 1968 * '' Morion boninensis'' Kasahara & Sato, 1990 * '' Morion brasiliensis'' Dejean, 1825 * '' Morion brevior'' Putzeys, 1873 * '' Morion caledoniae'' Fauvel, 1903 * '' Morion congoensis'' Straneo, 1959 * '' Morion constrictus'' Chaudoir, 1880 * '' Morion cordatus'' Chaudoir, 1837 * '' Morion costiger'' Darlington, 1934 * '' Morion crassipes ...
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