coccolite (kokolit)

[ 2. Same as coccolith. coccolith (kok'ō-lith), n. [ There are [in the "ooze" of the Atlantic sea-bed] innumerable multitudes of very minute, saucer-shaped disks, termed coccoliths , which are frequently met with a ociated together into spheroidal aggregations, the cocco spheres of Wallich. Huxley, Physiography, p. 267.