rhabdolith means A minute calcareous rodlike structure found at both the surface and the bottom of the ocean, supposed by some to be a calcareous alga. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From rhabdo- + -lith.
noun
- A minute calcareous rodlike structure found at both the surface and the bottom of the ocean, supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.“It there forms bold bluffs for many miles, and the name "Chalk" is very properly applied to it, from the fact that, like the chalks of Europe, it is largely composed of Foraminifera and coccoliths, to which, in these formations, is added the more recently discovered rhabdolith.”
- Any Mesozoic and Cenozoic coccolith consisting of a single plate with a stem.“There is no doubt that Cruxia mericii designates a sacculiform rhabdolith with a structure related to that of the rhabdoliths in Group 1.”