Definition of Phytoliths

1. Noun. (plural of phytolith) ¹

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Definition of Phytoliths

1. phytolith [n] - See also: phytolith

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytoliths

phytohemagglutinin
phytohemagglutinins
phytoherm
phytohormone
phytohormones
phytoid
phytol
phytolacca
phytolaccas
phytolectin
phytolite
phytolites
phytolith
phytolithologist
phytolithology
phytoliths (current term)
phytologic
phytological
phytologies
phytologist
phytologists
phytology
phytols
phytomastigophorea
phytomedicine
phytomedicines
phytomenadione
phytomere
phytomeres

Literary usage of Phytoliths

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates: Proceedings of the First by Daniel T. Potts, Hasan Al Naboodah, Peter Hellyer (2003)
"Some phytoliths exhibit sufficient morphological differences to be of taxonomic ... phytoliths precipitated in grass tissues are of two broad classes: ..."

2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1877)
"... and 70 other forms, including phytoliths, ... are here enumerated, with some phytoliths, Zeoliths, ..."

3. Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland, and the by Thomas Rupert Jones, Great Britain Admiralty (1875)
"... and some phytoliths. Several new species are figured in the four plates. Those in PI. I., Foraminifera, appear to be according to the nomenclature of ..."

4. Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland, and the by Great Britain Admiralty, Thomas Rupert Jones (1875)
"... and some phytoliths. Several new species are figured in the four plates. Those hi PL I., Foraminifera, appear to be according to the nomenclature of ..."

5. Corinth: The Centenary, 1896-1996 by Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis (2002)
"Microscopic analysis of phytoliths trapped in the calculus (mineralized tartar) ... The combined analyses of nutritional isotopes in bones, phytoliths in ..."

6. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"phytoliths. Fossil plants. PHYTOLOGY. That part of Botany which treats »r plants in general. PHYTON. A rudimentary plant, out of numbers of which perfect ..."

7. Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland, and the by Thomas Rupert Jones, Great Britain Admiralty (1875)
"... and some phytoliths. Several new species arc figured in the four plates. Those in PI. I., Foraminifera, appear to be according to the nomenclature of ..."

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