Coccolith

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

  Coccolith \Coc"co*lith\, n. [Gr. ? a grain, seed + -lith.]
     (Biol.)
     One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably
     vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
     [1913 Webster]