oolite

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains.
2. noun An ooid or oolith.

Similar words

coralline oolith illite globulite roestone lutite quartzolite olgite spherite iolite

Often followed by

and of formation series is limestone group in at

Word family

oolites oolitic