3. (Zoöl.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.

Mil"ia*ry, n. (Zoöl.) One of the small tubercles of Echini.

||Mi`lice" (?), n. [F.] Militia. [Obs.]

||Mil"i*o`la (?), n. [NL., dim. of L. milium millet. So named from its

||resemblance to millet seed.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Foraminifera, having

||a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

Mil"i*o*lite (?), n. (Paleon.) A fossil shell of, or similar to, the

genus Miliola.

Mil"i*o*lite, a. The same Miliolitic.

Miliolite limestone (Geol.), a building stone, one of the group of the

Paris basin, almost entirely made up of many-chambered microscopic

shells.

Mil`i*o*lit"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola;

containing miliolites.

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