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coc•co•lith n.

Geology, Microbiologya microscopic calcareous disk or ring making up part of the covering of certain marine plankton and forming much of the content of chalk rocks.

Neo-Latin Coccolithus origin, originally a genus name; see coccus, -o-, -lith
1865–70

coc′co•lith′ic, adj.

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