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Calcareous

//kælˈkɛəɹi.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or containing calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky.

    "The traveller from the coast, who, after plodding northward for a score of miles over calcareous downs and corn-lands, suddenly reaches the verge of one of these escarpments[.]"

  2. 2
    Growing in a chalky habitat.
Adjective
  1. 1
    composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin calcārius (“of or pertaining to lime”), derived from calx (“lime”). Similar to calcium.

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