Definition of Coprolitic

1. a. Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.

Definition of Coprolitic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to coprolites. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coprolitic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coprolitic

coproducers
coproduces
coproducing
coproduct
coproduction
coproductions
coproducts
coprolalia
coprolalias
coprolalic
coprolites
coprolitic (current term)
coprologies
coprology
copromote
copromoted
copromoter
copromoters
copromotes
copromoting
copromotion
copromotional
copromotions
copropagating
coprophagan

Literary usage of Coprolitic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as by Francis Henry Egerton Bridgewater (1836)
"Th'is coprolitic mass seems nearly to retain the form of the stomach of the animal, c, Coracoid bone. d, Scapula, e, Humerus. f, Radius. g, Ulna. (Scharf. ..."

2. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1837)
"This coprolitic mass seems nearly to retain the form of the stomach of the animal, c, Coracoid bone, d, Scapula. e, ..."

3. Geology and Mineralogy: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1836)
"This coprolitic mass seems nearly to retain the form of the stomach of the animal. c, Coracoid bone. d, Scapula. e, Humerus, f, Radius. g, Ulna. (Scharf. ..."

4. The Student's Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell (1885)
"... forest-bed—Its fauna—Norwich Crag — Older Pliocene strata—Red Crag of Suffolk—coprolitic lied of lied Crag— White or Coralline Crag—Relative age, ..."

5. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Georgia (1898)
"The particles consist largely of calcium phosphate, and are probably of coprolitic origin.' 140 " —Dark-gray clay, similar to the clays found at the 50- and ..."

6. Text-book of Geology by Sir Archibald Geikie (1903)
"coprolitic nodules and beds '—are formed of the accumulated excrement (coprolites) '!' vertebrated animals. Among the Carboniferous shales of the basin of ..."

7. A Report on the Phosphate Deposits of Egypt by Egypt Maṣlaḥat al-Misāḥah (1900)
"Light brown coprolitic phosphatic bed (Sample O) (V30 (! ... Very coarse, brown coprolitic fish-bone beds, with numerous teeth (Sample N) (V65 0. ..."

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