rhabdolith
Meanings
noun
- A minute calcareous rodlike structure found at both the surface and the bottom of the ocean, supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.
- Any Mesozoic and Cenozoic coccolith consisting of a single plate with a stem.
Word forms
Etymology
From rhabdo- + -lith.
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