COPROLITE

Definition: COPROLITE

COPROLITE

Noun

1. A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "COPROLITE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Etymology: Coprolite \Cop"ro*lite\, noun. [from Greek expression ko`pros dung -lite.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Mining	Petrified excrement. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Uncleanness	Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: COPROLITE

Specialty definitions using "COPROLITE": beetle stone. (references)

Etymologies containing "COPROLITE": Ichthyocoprolite. (references)

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Derivations
	Words beginning with "COPROLITE": coprolites. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"COPROLITE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: copralite, Coralita, saprolite. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "COPROLITE" (pronounced 'Cop"ro*lite'): Aciculite, Aerolite, Agalmatolite, Ampelite, Antholite, Anthophyllite, Anthropolite, Apophyllite, Arenicolite, Argillite, Asterophyllite, Baculite, Blite, Botryolite, Byssolite, Carnallite, Carpolite, Cerolite, Chesterlite, Chiastolite, Chrysolite, Coccolite, Corallite, Crocidolite, Cryolite, Crystallite, Danalite, Datolite, Daubreelite, Embolite, Fibrolite, Foralite, Francolite, Frost-blite, Globulite, halite, Homilite, impolite, Krokidolite, Kryolite, Lherzolite, Lithiophilite, Longulite, Lucullite, Lunulite, Malacolite, Marmolite, Melilite, Mellite, Menilite. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-o-o-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: leprotic, petrolic.
	-2 letters: copilot, loopier, peloric, poitrel, politer, portico, precool.
	-3 letters: citole, coiler, colter, cooler, coolie, cooper, cooter, cootie, copier, coplot, copter, erotic, lector, lictor, loiter, looper, looter, ocelot, octopi, octroi, oolite, oriole, petrol, piolet, poetic, police, polite, protei, recoil, relict, replot, retool, toiler, tooler, triple, tropic.
	-4 letters: ceorl, citer, clept, clipt, cloot, color.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-o-o-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: coprolites, petrologic.
	+2 letters: heliotropic, luteotropic, percolation, pleiotropic, proteolytic, protostelic.
	+3 letters: coleopterist, corporeality, cryptologies, electrophori, glycoprotein, hypochlorite, luteotrophic, organoleptic, percolations, petrological, proctologies, projectional, velociraptor.
	+4 letters: coleopterists, collectorship, cooperatively, corporalities, geotropically, glycoproteins, hypochlorites, nucleoprotein, orthoepically, photoelectric, prevocational, prosecutorial, provocatively, recompilation, scleroprotein, velociraptors.
	+5 letters: collectorships, contemporarily, controllership, corporealities, electrodeposit, herpetological, multiprocessor, nucleoproteins, optoelectronic, orthopedically, overcomplicate, petrologically, poikilothermic, pteridological, recompilations, scleroproteins.
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