Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A calcareous body with an organic structure found embedded in bathybius.
- noun A disk-shaped coccolith convex on one side and concave on the other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about 1/50000 of an inch in its longest diameter.
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- noun biology A kind of
coccolith with anoval discoidal body, a thick stronglyrefracting rim and a thinner central portion.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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