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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A very small blade made of flaked stone and used as a tool, especially in the European Mesolithic Period.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name proposed by Vogelsang, in 1867, to designate the “microscopic acicular components of rocks”; a “microscopic individual” (Zirkel).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Same as
microlite , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaeology A small stone tool.
Etymologies
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micro- + -lith
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