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Webster 1913 Edition

Coccolith

Coc′co-lith

,

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] a grain, seed +

-lith

.]

(Biol.)

One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

Definition 2024

coccolith

coccolith

English

Noun

coccolith ‎(plural coccoliths)

(biology) A microscopic skeletal plate of calcite on the surface of certain marine phytoplankton; it forms chalk and limestone when fossilized