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milioline, a. and n. Zool.|ˈmɪlɪəlaɪn|
[f. Miliola + -ine.]
A. adj. Pertaining to or consisting of Miliolæ.
B. n. A foraminifer belonging to the genus Miliola or to the family Miliolida.
1873Dawson Earth & Man 243 The milioline limestone of the Eocene, so called from its immense abundance of microscopic shells of the genus Miliolina. 1879Carpenter in Encycl. Brit. IX. 376/2 Milioline shells..often show some kind of ‘sculpture’. Ibid., From this simple undivided spire we may pass along two divergent lines, one conducting us to the milioline and the other to the orbiculine type. Ibid., In the typical Miliolines it [the structure] is more or less obscured by the extension of the later chambers over the earlier. 1884Brady in Challenger Rep., Zool. IX. 137 The more strictly Milioline Foraminifera. |