different between oolitic vs oolite

English

Etymology

oolite +? -ic

Adjective

oolitic (comparative more oolitic, superlative most oolitic)

1. (geology) Made up of, or containing oolites
   • 1844, Charles Darwin, Volcanic Islands, Project Gutenberg transcription

     Masses of white, finely oolitic rock are attached to the outside of some of these coated pebbles.

2. (dated, 19th century) Of a prehistoric era; Jurassic.
   • 1852, J.C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California, Project Gutenberg transcription

     These mines occur in the same ridge in which, about 120 miles to the northward, and subsequently in their more immediate neighborhood, we discovered the fossils belonging to the oolitic period

Noun

oolitic (plural oolitics)

1. An oolite.
2. (dated, 19th century) A prehistoric era; the Jurassic.

Romanian

Etymology

From French oolithique

Adjective

oolitic m or n (feminine singular oolitic?, masculine plural oolitici, feminine and neuter plural oolitice)

1. oolitic

Declension

English

Etymology

From oo- +? -lite, after German Oolit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????l??t/

Noun

oolite (countable and uncountable, plural oolites)

1. (geology) A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 170:

     Here and there are beds of oolites, for example, made of little rounded grains – like millet seed – that form only in agitated warm waters, such as you might find off the Bahamas today.

2. (countable, rare) An ooid or oolith.

Synonyms

• ooid
• oolith
• egg-stone

Derived terms

• oolitic
• oolitiferous

Translations

Anagrams

• lootie, toolie

Italian

Etymology

oo- +? -lite

Noun

oolite m (plural ooliti)

1. oolite; oolith