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ornitholite|ɔːˈnɪθəlaɪt| [f. ornitho- + -lite.] A fossil of a bird or fragment of a bird.
1828in Webster. 1836Hitchcock in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XXIX. 307 For this paucity of ornitholites, geologists have..assigned probable reasons. 1869Gillmore tr. Figuier's Reptiles & Birds Introd. 3 Traces had been discovered..of certain Ornitholites. 1876Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. xix. 370 Many unknown fragments of bird-bones are..ranked under the general term ornitholites. Hence ornithoˈlitic a., as in ‘ornitholitic remains’. |