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coprolite

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒprəˌlaɪt/Part of speech nounSorted ceilooprtStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. fossil excrement; petrified dung

Word origin

From copro- + -lite.

Used in a sentence

  • Almost inevitably, he became the leading authority on coprolites – fossilized faeces – and had a table made entirely out of his collection of specimens.
  • Analyses of the DNA fragments preserved in the moa and kakapo coprolites showed that moa and kakapo fed on fungi.

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