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Definition of: nummulite
(num′yə·līt) noun Paleontol.
A large foraminifer of a nearly extinct family characteristic of the older Tertiary: preserved fossil forms show it as having a thin, coinlike shell. [<L nummulus small coin]
—num′mu·lit′ic (-lit′ik) adjective
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