Word.ws English Dictionary

spreite

spreite noun: a sedimentary lamina caused by animal behaviour.

Noun

spreite (plural spreites or spreiten)

  1. A sedimentary lamina caused by animal behaviour.
    • The upper part of bivalve-generated burrows includes the siphon trace (one or two siphons) that extends from the body cavity to the sediment/water interface, and any protrusive spreiten above the shell.2012, Dirk Knaust, Trace Fossils as Indicators of Sedimentary Environments, page 278

Forms of spreite

pluralspreites
pluralspreiten

Origin of spreite

Borrowed from German Spreite.

Questions about spreite

What does spreite mean?
Spreite means a sedimentary lamina caused by animal behaviour.
What part of speech is spreite?
Spreite is a noun.
What is the plural of spreite?
The plural of spreite is spreites.

Words near spreite in the dictionary

  1. Spreens
  2. sprees
  3. spreeuw
  4. spreeuws
  5. Spreewald
  6. spreite
  7. spreiten
  8. spreites
  9. Spreitzer
  10. Spreitzers
  11. sprelve

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spreite (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “spreite.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spreite. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.