Associations to the word «Bioherm»

Wiktionary

BIOHERM, noun. (geology) A massive, unlayered, mound-shape body in discordant relationship to the surrounding layered facies which drape over it; thus either a reef or a bank (after Asquith, 1979, p.73).
BIOHERM, noun. (geology) A mass of rock constructed from the remains of marine organisms such as coral or algae

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats