Calcareous
[kæl'keәriәs]
Definition
(adj.) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk .
Edited by Faye--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Limy.
Typed by Ferris
Definition
adj. like or containing chalk or lime whether waters rocks or soils.—n. Calcā′reousness.—adj. Calcarif′erous better Calcif′erous containing lime.
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Examples
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I did not find coal mines under the calcareous rocks in Derbyshire. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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