oolite lime

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• oolite — (n.) rock consisting of fine grains of carbonate of lime, 1785, from Mod.L. oolites, from oo , comb. form of Gk. oon egg (cognate with O.E. æg, see EGG (Cf. egg) (n.)) + lithos stone. So called because the rock resembles the roe of fish …   Etymology dictionary

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