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Definition of Trochite
1. n. A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.
Definition of Trochite
1. Noun. (paleontology) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trochite
1. an encrinite joint [n -S]
Medical Definition of Trochite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trochite
Literary usage of Trochite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1808)
"Then, by degrees, it changes its form, so that from a simple trochite with a ...
How is it possible that a trochite can transplant itself into the various ..."
2. The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, Andrew Reid, John Gray, John Eames, John Martyn (1722)
"... of a trochite on it; the Top of it, indeed, is a little flat with a Hole in
it, but it is withal ... but only the Oval in the upper Part of the trochite ..."
3. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End of the Year 1700 by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, John Eames, John Martyn (1716)
"... but only the Oval in the upper part of the trochite ... of a trochite on it ;
the Top of it, indeed isa little flat with a hole in it, but it is withal ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1809)
"... suffered a sudden jar, and immediately a fine transparent membrane separated
from about three-fourths of the inferior surface of the trochite, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1785)
"In the black, and white are great numbers of trochite-- which, when poli/hed,
appear beautiful: the rocks ..."
6. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Nineteenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"The older authors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries occasionally figured
the stems and crowns of crinoids under the terms of trochite, ..."
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