ornitholite
(ɔːˈnɪθəlaɪt)
[f. ornitho- + -lite.]
A fossil of a bird or fragment of a bird.
| 1828 in Webster. 1836 Hitchcock in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XXIX. 307 For this paucity of ornitholites, geologists have..assigned probable reasons. 1869 Gillmore tr. Figuier's Reptiles & Birds Introd. 3 Traces had been discovered..of certain Ornitholites. 1876 Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. xix. 370 Many unknown fragments of bird-bones are..ranked under the general term ornitholites. |
Hence ornithoˈlitic a., as in ‘ornitholitic remains’.