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Definition: radiolarian ooze
Ooze
\Ooze\, n. [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w?s
juice, ooze, Icel. v[=a]s wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G.
wasen.]
1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or
easily yield to pressure.
“My son i' the ooze is
bedded.” --Shak.
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2. Soft flow; spring. --Prior.
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3. The liquor of a tan vat.
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4. (Oceanography) A soft deposit covering large areas of the
ocean bottom, composed largely or mainly of the shells or
other hard parts of minute organisms, as Foraminifera,
Radiolaria, and diatoms. The
radiolarian ooze occurring
in many places in very deep water is composed mainly of
the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians, calcareous matter
being dissolved by the lage percentage of carbon dioxide
in the water at these depths.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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