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coc⋅co⋅lith

   [kok-uh-lith]
–noun
a microscopic calcareous disk or ring making up part of the covering of certain marine plankton and forming much of the content of chalk rocks.
Origin:
1865–70; < NL Coccolithus orig. a genus name; see coccus, -o-, -lith
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