GRAPTOLITE

Meaning of GRAPTOLITE in English

[ 'graptəlʌɪt ]

■ noun a fossil planktonic invertebrate animal, believed to be related to the pterobranchs.

Origin

C19: from Gk graptos 'marked with letters' + -lite : so named because impressions left on hard shales resemble slate pencil marks.

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GRAPTOLITE — noun see: carve Date: 1841 any of an extinct class (Graptolithina) of hemichordate colonial marine animals of the Paleozoic era …
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GRAPTOLITE — Any member of an extinct group of small, aquatic colonial invertebrates that first became apparent during the Cambrian Period and …
Английский словарь Британика
GRAPTOLITE — ˈgraptəˌlīt noun ( -s ) Etymology: Greek graptos painted, written (from graphein to write) + -lite : any of numerous …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRAPTOLITE — (n.) One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the …
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GRAPTOLITE — ( n. ) One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAPTOLITE — — graptolitic /grap'teuh lit"ik/ , adj. /grap"teuh luyt'/ , n. any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAPTOLITE — noun Etymology: Greek graptos painted (from graphein to write, paint) + English -lite — more at carve Date: 1841 : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GRAPTOLITE — noun one of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus graptolites and allied genera, found in the …
Webster English vocab
GRAPTOLITE — [grap.to.lite] n [Gk graptos painted (fr. graphein to write, paint) + E -lite--more at carve] (1841): any of numerous extinct …
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GRAPTOLITE — any member of an extinct group of small, aquatic colonial animals that first became apparent during the Cambrian Period (540 …
Britannica English vocabulary
GRAPTOLITE — graptolite BrE AmE ˈɡræpt ə ʊ laɪt AmE \ -ə- ▷ graptolite|s s
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GRAPTOLITE — n. an extinct marine invertebrate animal found as a fossil in lower Palaeozoic rocks. [Gk graptos marked with letters + …
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GRAPTOLITE — n. an extinct marine invertebrate animal found as a fossil in lower Palaeozoic rocks. [ Gk graptos marked with letters …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GRAPTOLITE — n. an extinct marine invertebrate animal found as a fossil in lower Palaeozoic rocks. Etymology: Gk graptos marked with letters …
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GRAPTOLITE — n. Any member of an extinct group of small, aquatic colonial invertebrates that first became apparent during the Cambrian Period …
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GRAPTOLITE — граптолит
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GRAPTOLITE — граптолит
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GRAPTOLITE — n. Pronunciation: ' grap-t ə - ˌ l ī t Function: noun Etymology: Greek graptos painted (fr. graphein to write, …
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STIPE — I. ˈstīp noun ( -s ) Etymology: New Latin stipes, from Latin, log, trunk of a tree; akin to Latin …
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MONOGRAPTID — I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ at mono- +|graptə̇d adjective Etymology: New Latin Monograptus + English -id : of or relating to the genus …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
RHABDOSOME — ˈrabdəˌsōm noun ( -s ) Etymology: rhabd- + -some : a colonial graptolite derived from a single individual
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RHABDOPHORAN — -fərən noun ( -s ) : graptolite
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NEMA — ˈnēmə noun ( -s ) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek nēma thread — more at needle 1. : a tubular …
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GRAPTOLITOIDEA — -lə̇ˈtȯidēə noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Graptolitus, genus of Graptolitoidea (alteration of Graptolithus, from Greek graptos painted, written …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DISSEPIMENT — də̇ˈsepəmənt noun Etymology: Latin dissaepimentum partition, from dissaepire, dissepire to separate, divide (from dis- apart + saepire, sepire to fence …
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SCANDENT — [ 'skandənt ] ■ adjective chiefly Palaeontology (especially of a graptolite) having a climbing habit. Origin C17: from L. ~- …
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SILURIAN PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. interval of geologic …
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ORDOVICIAN PERIOD — interval of geologic time from 505 to 438 million years ago. The second oldest period of the Paleozoic Era, it …
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LLANDOVERY SERIES — lowermost of four main divisions in the Silurian System, representing all those rocks on a global basis deposited during the …
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DIPLOGRAPTUS — genus of graptolites, small, extinct colonial marine animals thought to be related to the primitive chordates and restricted to ancient …
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DEPOSITION — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE acid ▪ I can do experiments in the greenhouse that show that red spruce …
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