rhabdolith

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A minute calcareous rodlike structure found at both the surface and the bottom of the ocean, supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.
  2. Any Mesozoic and Cenozoic coccolith consisting of a single plate with a stem.

Word forms

rhabdolith rhabdoliths

Etymology

From rhabdo- + -lith.

Related words

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