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Meaning of MILIOLITE

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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  1. \Mil"i*o*lite\, n. (Paleon.)
    A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola.
    
    
  2. \Mil"i*o*lite\, a.
    The same {Milliolitic}.
    
    {Miliolite limestone} (Geol.), a building stone, one of the
       group of the Paris basin, almost entirely made up of
       many-chambered microscopic shells.
    
    
 

 

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