Biol. [f. Gr. κόκκο-ς grain, etc. + σφαῖρα globe.] A spherical mass of associated coccoliths found in deep-sea dredging or floating at the surface of the ocean.
1868. Huxley, Lay Serm. (1870), 205. Bodies similar to these ‘coccoliths’ were aggregated together into spheroids which he [Dr. Wallich] termed ‘coccospheres.’
1869. G. C. Wallich, in Sci. Opin., 10 Feb., 271/1.
