(Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It iscomposed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden issometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times ofscarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety ofcalcite.

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