Calcareous
[kæl'keәriәs]
解释:
(adj.) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk .
法耶手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
斐迪南整理
同义词及近义词：
a. Limy.
费理斯编辑
解释:
adj. like or containing chalk or lime whether waters rocks or soils.—n. Calcā′reousness.—adj. Calcarif′erous better Calcif′erous containing lime.
校对:奥菲莉娅
例句:
- At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I did not find coal mines under the calcareous rocks in Derbyshire. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The calcareous remains of marine animals in the solid body of the earth bear witness of a period to which no other species of chronology is able to remount. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
校对:奥菲莉娅