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Webster 1913 Edition
Coprolite
Cop′ro-lite
,Noun.
[Gr.
κόπροσ
dung + -lite
.] (Paleon.)
A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.
Definition 2024
coprolite
coprolite
English
A coprolite
Noun
coprolite (plural coprolites)
- A fossil consisting of petrified dung.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything:
- Almost inevitably, he became the leading authority on coprolites – fossilized faeces – and had a table made entirely out of his collection of specimens.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything:
Translations
fossilized excrement
