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coccolithophores

coccolithophores is the plural of coccolithophore.

Meaning of coccolithophore

Noun

coccolithophore (plural coccolithophores)

  1. Any of many minute mostly marine planktonic biflagellated organisms with brown chromatophores and complex calcareous, less commonly siliceous, shells.
    • Chalk formations such as the white cliffs of Dover are largely composed of the bodies of countless billions of coccolithophores that bloomed, died and then sank to the seabed each season for millions of years.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 290

Questions about coccolithophores

What is coccolithophores the plural of?
Coccolithophores is the plural of coccolithophore.

Words near coccolithophores in the dictionary

  1. coccolites
  2. coccolith
  3. coccolithic
  4. coccolithogenesis
  5. coccolithophore
  6. coccolithophores
  7. coccolithophorid
  8. coccolithophoride
  9. coccolithophorides
  10. coccolithophorids
  11. coccolithovirus

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