Palæont. [f. Gr. χοάνη funnel + -ITE.] A fossil Zoophyte, generally characterized by a funnel-shaped skeleton, which forms the nucleus of many chalk flints.
1846–9. Smart, Dict. Suppl.
1851. Richardson, Geol., viii. 215. The beautiful sections cut from the pebbles … owe their exquisite markings to the fossil Choanite.
