Etymology

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Today it means: A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains. Full definition →

German Oolit
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  1. German · derived fromOolit
  2. English todayoolite

From oo- + -lite, after German Oolit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.