Noun: mortichnium
| Singular | mortichnium |
| Plural | mortichnia |
Sample Sentences
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In the Ediacaran mortichnia, however, the traces are always in front of the death mask, as seen in the perfect mortichnium from Russia. [2015, Adolf Seilacher, Alan D. Gishlick, Morphodynamics, page 268:]
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One of the most extravagant examples of mortichnia was described from the same limestone in Solnhofen, Bavaria. This trace fossil captured the last minutes of a horseshoe crab’s life when it tumbled to the bottom of a lagoon. [2017 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like mortichnium
meroplasmodium,
paleostriatum,
urodeum,
siphonium,
cladodium,
apogalacticum,
surrogatum,
siglum,
accubitum,
endoplasmic reticulum,
microsclerotium,
xystum,
archipterygium,
pleiochasium,
tripudium,
endosporium,
xenium,
separatum,
viscidium,
zoœcium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin mors (“death, corpse”) + -ichnion, with influence from -ium. See: Latin Nouns '
mors'.