名詞
词源
來自古希臘語 κόκκος (kókkos，“穀物，種子”) + λίθος (líthos，“石頭”) + φόρος (phóros，“攜帶”)；這一複合詞指的是浮游植物的生命週期如何導致微小的種子狀外骨骼沉積，形成方解石。
释义
鈣板金藻
Chalk formations such as the white cliffs of Dover are largely composed of the bodies of countless billions of coccolithophores that bloomed, died and then sank to the seabed each season for millions of years.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 290:It was filled with a kind of golden-brown planktonic algae known as coccolithophores, whose skeletons would form the chalks that underlie parts of Britain, Belgium and France today.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 27:
词形与写法（1）
| 词形 | 标注 | 转写 |
|---|---|---|
| coccolithophores | plural |