Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A granular limestone each grain of which is more or less completely spherical, and made up of concentric coats of carbonate of lime formed around a minute nucleus, which is usually a grain of sand: so called from the resemblance of the rock to the roe of a fish.
  • Same as oölitic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geol.) A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of geology.

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  • noun Alternative form of oolite.

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  • oö!! nice diaeresis.

    June 28, 2007

  • I didn't realize that oolite had one.

    June 28, 2007

  • If zoology traditionally used one, perhaps it would be pronounced correctly.

    June 28, 2007