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Definition of Coccoliths
1. coccolith [n] - See also: coccolith
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coccoliths
Literary usage of Coccoliths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"It is difficult to estimate with certainity the number of coccoliths on the ...
The coccoliths are then sufficiently separated from one another to enable ..."
2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1869)
"The coccoliths on each chamber are placed in so regular an order as to leave no
doubt whatever regarding their being component portions of each calcareous ..."
3. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"Huxley first found the coccoliths (Fig. 293, 1, 2) which Dr. Wallich in 1860
found aggregated in the spherical masses which he designated as' ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1872)
"Hob. Sarawak (Wallace). One specimen. BML— On coccoliths and ... I MUST preface
my communications upon coccoliths and a newly discovered kind of organized ..."
5. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1869)
"He shows that, first, there are two kinds of coccoliths, both in the Atlantic
mud and in the chalk—the one having a more complex structure than the other ..."
6. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1869)
"It will be found that the coccoliths are by no means uniform in size, exact
appearance, or degree of convexity. In the "Annals of Natural History" for the ..."
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