Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of, resembling, or containing coprolites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
coprolites .
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Examples
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The first that come to mind are "half-assed" amd "another brick of crap in the coprolitic wall", or even "a self-serving and self-servicing conglomeration of douchebags."
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Ah, the coprolitic remains of a mighty plesiosaur!
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Holoptychius, tuberculated plates, and coprolitic blotches; and further on still, in a rubbly flagstone, near where a little stream comes trotting merrily from the uplands to the sea, there occur skull-plates, -- at least one of which has been disinterred entire, -- large and massy as the helmets of ancient warriors.
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Here and there a few glittering scales occur; here and there a few coprolitic patches; here and there the faint impression of a fucoid; but no organism sufficiently entire to be transferred to the bag.
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There occurred in it the small univalve resembling a Trochus, together with the oblong bivalve, somewhat like a Tellina; and, spread thickly throughout the block, lay fragments of coprolitic matter, and the scales and teeth of fishes.
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Carboniferous period, it has lost, through its rock-change, the fertilizing properties which it once possessed; or whether it still retains them, like some of the coprolitic beds of the Oölite and
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