| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fecal pellet | Mining | An organic excrement, mainly of invertebrates, occurring esp.in modern marine deposits but also fossilized in some sedimentary rocks; usually of a simple ovoid form less than a millimeter in length, or more rarely rod-shaped with longitudinal or transverse sculpturing, devoid of internal structure, and smaller than a coprolite. Also spelled faecal pellet. (references) | |
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