coccoliths

Meaning of coccoliths

plural noun

a minute rounded calcareous platelet, numbers of which form the spherical shells of coccolithophores.

mid 19th century: from Greek kokkos ‘grain or berry’ + lithos ‘stone’.

Information about coccoliths

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of coccoliths is: coccolith.
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Hyphenation of coccoliths

coc-col-iths

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • coccoliths is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with coccoliths

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