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oolitic

oolitic adjective: made up of, or containing oolites.

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

Noun

oolitic (plural oolitics)

  1. An oolite.
  2. (dated, obsolete) A prehistoric era; the Jurassic.

Forms of oolitic

Adjective
comparativemore oolitic
superlativemost oolitic
Noun
pluraloolitics

Origin of oolitic

From oolite + -ic.

Words formed from oolitic

Questions about oolitic

What does oolitic mean?
Oolitic means made up of, or containing oolites.
What part of speech is oolitic?
Oolitic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near oolitic in the dictionary

  1. oolite
  2. oolites
  3. oolith
  4. oolithic
  5. ooliths
  6. oolitic
  7. oolitics
  8. oolitiferous
  9. oolock
  10. oolocks
  11. oologic

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