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trochite Palæont. Now rare or Obs.|ˈtrɒkaɪt, ˈtrəʊkaɪt| [ad. mod.L. trochītēs, f. Gr. τροχός wheel: see -ite1.] A name for the detached wheel-like joints of encrinites: = entrochite, entrochus.
1676Beaumont in Phil. Trans. XI. 726 One Trochite..has round inlets or sockets. 1815W. Phillips Outl. Min. & Geol. (1818) 141 Transition Limestone..contains petrifactions of marine animals, as corallites, encrinites, pentacrinites, entrochites, and trochites. 1853Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. III. xxxii. 391 A heap of turbinites and trochites. Hence trochitic |trəʊˈkɪtɪk| a. (rare—0), of the nature of or pertaining to a trochite or trochites.
1891in Cent. Dict. |