Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Widmanstatten figures \Wid"man*st["a]t`ten fig"ures\ (Min.)
   Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so
   called after A. B. Widmanst["a]tten, of Vienna, who first
   described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under
   {Meteorite}.