Biol. [f. CYATHUS + -LITH.] A kind of coccolith resembling two cups placed base to base.

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1875.  Carpenter, Microsc. & Rev., § 367. Two distinct types are recognizable among the Coccoliths, which Prof. Huxley has designated respectively discoliths and cyatholiths. Ibid., § 409. When viewed sideways or obliquely … the cyatholiths are found to have a form somewhat resembling that of a shirt-stud.

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