Meanings
nounoolite (countable and uncountable, plural oolites)
plural oolites
- countableuncountablegeographyA rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains.
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.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 170
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Origin
- GermanOolit
- Englishoolite
From oo- + -lite, after German Oolit.
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Catalan oolita
- oolitageology: rock of spherical grains
Finnish ooliittinen mineraali, ooliitti
- ooliittinen mineraaligeology: rock of spherical grains
- ooliittiooid or olith
German Oolith
- Oolithgeology: rock of spherical grains
Polish oolit, ikrowiec
- oolitgeology: rock of spherical grains
- ikrowiecgeology: rock of spherical grains
Spanish oolito
- oolitogeology: rock of spherical grains
Swedish oolit
- oolitgeology: rock of spherical grains
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