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oölitic

oölitic is the archaic form of oolitic.

Meaning of oolitic

Adjective

oolitic (comparative more oolitic, superlative most oolitic)

  1. Made up of, or containing oolites
    • Masses of white, finely oolitic rock are attached to the outside of some of these coated pebbles.1844, Charles Darwin, Volcanic Islands
  2. (dated, obsolete) Of a prehistoric era; Jurassic.
    • These mines occur in the same ridge in which, about 120 miles to the northward, and subsequently in their more immediate neighborhood, we discovered the fossils belonging to the oolitic period1852, J.C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California

See all 4 meanings of oolitic

Forms of oölitic

comparativemore oölitic
superlativemost oölitic

Questions about oölitic

What is oölitic the archaic form of?
Oölitic is the archaic form of oolitic.

Words near oölitic in the dictionary

  1. oöid
  2. oöidal
  3. oöids
  4. oölite
  5. oölites
  6. oölitic
  7. oölogic
  8. oölogical
  9. oölogically
  10. oölogist
  11. oölogists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oölitic (page history and authors); oolitic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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