Bergmeal

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bergmeal \Berg"meal\, n. [G. berg mountain + mehl meal.] (Min.)
     An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of
     the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is
     sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in
     times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery
     variety of calcite.


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