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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small, rounded, concentric accretion of rock, usually of calcium carbonate, larger and less regular than an oolite.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek pisos, pea + –lith.]

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