coccolith
About 0.03 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A microscopic skeletal plate of calcite on the surface of certain marine phytoplankton; it forms chalk and limestone when fossilized
- noun Alternative form of coccolite (“diopside”).
Similar words
holococcolith coccolithogenesis lith calcilutite biolithite cololith murolith coralloid fecalith calciphyte
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