oolite
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See also: oölite
English
Etymology
From oo- + -lite, after German Oolit.
Pronunciation
Noun
oolite (countable and uncountable, plural oolites)
- (geology) A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 170:
- Here and there are beds of oolites, for example, made of little rounded grains – like millet seed – that form only in agitated warm waters, such as you might find off the Bahamas today.
- (countable, rare) An ooid or oolith.
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Translations
geology: rock of spherical grains
ooid or olith
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Italian
Etymology
Noun
oolite m (plural ooliti)