Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fossil conch or shell.
- noun A form of calcium carbonate, forming a considerable part of the calcareous secretions of molluscan shells and supposed to have specific characters. It is probably only a form of aragonite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A fossil or petrified conch or shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun paleontology A
fossil or petrifiedconch orshell .
Etymologies
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conch + -ite
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