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English

Etymology

From New Latin radiolaria +? -an

Noun

radiolarian (plural radiolarians)

1. Any of many marine amoeboid protozoa, of subclass Radiolaria, having filamentous pseudopodia; they have intricate silica skeletons.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.188:

     Water wells inkblack in the streets repeating the polelamps in glozy rosettes that dish and slide in the wash like radiolarians pale with phosphorous on a midnight sea.

Translations

See also

• radiolaria

English

Noun

radiolarite (countable and uncountable, plural radiolarites)

1. (uncountable, countable) radiolarian ooze, or the sedimentary rock formed from it.

Further reading

• radiolarite at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Glossary of Geology, Julia A. Jackson, James P. Mehl, Klaus K. E. Neuendorf, 2005, page 534

Anagrams

• railroad tie

French

Noun

radiolarite f (plural radiolarites)

1. radiolarite

Further reading

• “radiolarite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).