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What is the noun for microliths?

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microlite
  1. (mineralogy) A basic fluoride of sodium, calcium, tantalum and niobium that is isomorphous with pyrochlore
  2. (archaeology) A microlith
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    1. “It occurs most commonly in the minerals columbite, tantalite, and microlite.”
      “These minerals are columbite, microlite, futile, thorite, and zircon.”
      “I've been in a microlite three times, in a helicopter and flown in a Tiger Moth.”
microlith
  1. (archaeology) A small stone tool.
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    1. “Archaeologists discovered a microlith at the ancient site, providing evidence of early human toolmaking techniques.”
      “Blank production is the same as in the earlier assemblages technically, but among the microlith tools there are also trapezes and lunates in in addition to the triangles.”
      “Each triangular or crescent-shaped microlith is about the size of a fingernail.”
microliths
  1. plural of microlith
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    1. “Small worked flint blades known as microliths were perhaps the barbs of spears and harpoons with wooden shafts.”
      “The site is dated by large quantities of Mesolithic flints, such as crescent-shaped microliths, scrapers and points.”
      “The stone tool assemblage includes convex end scrapers, bifacially-flaked small knives, and flattened discoids and microliths.”
microlites
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