Palæont. Now rare or Obs. [ad. mod.L. trochītēs, f. Gr. τροχός wheel: see -ITE1.] A name for the detached wheel-like joints of encrinites: = ENTROCHITE, ENTROCHUS.

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1676.  Beaumont, in Phil. Trans., XI. 726. One Trochite … has round inlets or sockets.

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1815.  W. Phillips, Outl. Min. & Geol. (1818), 141. Transition Limestone … contains petrifactions of marine animals, as corallites, encrinites, pentacrinites, entrochites, and trochites.

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1853.  Th. Ross, Humboldt’s Trav., III. xxxii. 391. A heap of turbinites and trochites.

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  Hence Trochitic a. (rare–0), of the nature of or pertaining to a trochite or trochites.

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1891.  in Cent. Dict.

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