Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fossil rotalian or rotaline.

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

  • noun (Paleon.) Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under rhizopod.

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  • noun paleontology Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation.

Etymologies

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Latin rotalis ("having wheels")

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