Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small round calcareous grain found, for example, in limestones.
- n. Rock, usually limestone, composed of oolites.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From oo- + -lite, after German Oolit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mr. Strang says he used natural materials to build the home, including oolite, a rock that came from the site itself.”
“The skiff sped past another island, one of the maze of coral and oolite formed islands that comprised the Florida Keys.”
“The bowl is, like other early fonts, rather tub-shaped, made of coarse-grained oolite, a Cotswold district stone, covered with uncommon ornamentation.”
“Great and inferior oolite limestones, and sandy beds 18”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832
“Northampton sand, the lowest layer of the oolite, and lying immediately above the upper lias. {85b}”
“Woodhall water comes from the “inferior oolite” which comprises the”
“He gives a very interesting coloured section, showing these different strata, where the springs arise beneath the oolite; then the ferruginous gravels, the clunch clay, and the lias underlaying all.”
“Whether they are to be entirely depended upon is questionable, but we may here repeat them: — Gravel and boulder clay, 10 feet; Kimeridge and Oxford clays, 350; Kellaways rock, blue clays, cornbrash, limestone, great oolite, clay and limestone, upper”
“About a dozen men, with little tables before them, are dispersed over the latter part of the ascent, and keep tempting you with "fossiliferous specimens of the oolite formation," "tertiary," "silurian," "saurian,”
“He had a geological chart of America, with what he felt to be melancholy blanks for the chalk and oolite beds of his own country, and appropriate fossils indicated by an index-finger in red ink.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oolite’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, O
opacity, opaline, olfactory, orthoepy, orthoepy, oleaginous, obloquy, oasitic, obtrude, orthotic, overweening, ostinato and 125 more...
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squigee's Words
numismatist, oolite, cornichon, flit, penultimate, plutocracy, plumbic, oblate, seismic, penury, lapidary, aerie and 18 more...
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library school!
I'm working on my MLS, and hoarding words along the way.
neurasthenic, syndetic, corbel, karst, charrette, magnetar, realia, deacquisition, additur, lapecide, eutaxy, extradiegetic and 20 more...
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smerus's Words
syzygy, adumbrate, fuselage, taghairm, quotidian, theremin, eleemosynary, quagmire, arthropod, infangthief, scherzando, diaeresis and 23 more...
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Words that start with a double letter. Suggestions welcome!
eerie, eel, oolite, oozy, aardvark, oops, oology, oolong, ooh, oomiak, oomph, oospore and 15 more...
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OoOoOo
Words starting with oo. Because I like the way it looks and sounds.
oobleck, oologist, oosphere, oogonium, ooer, oolite, ookinete, oocyst, ootheca, oospore, oology, oo and 56 more...
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avivamagnolia ~ A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish.
~ Rock composed of small concretions, usually of calcium carbonate, containing a nucleus and clearly defined concentric shells.
~ Oolite sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. In the British Isles oolitic limestone is characteristic of the middle and upper Jurassic
~ Origin: German ~ An egg. Jan 18, 2009