They're going to need to quarry a lot of limestone in order to build the new church.
Source: tatoeba (3332755)
Limestone
//ˈlaɪmˌstoʊn//
Synonyms for "limestone" (20 found)
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89 translations across 72 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- gur gëlqeror noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Arabic
2 entries- حَجَر جِيرِيّ noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- حَجَر كِلْسِيّ noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Armenian
1 entries- կրաքար noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- əhəngdaşı noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Basque
1 entries- kareharri noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Belarusian
1 entries- вапня́к noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Bengali
1 entries- ঘুটিং noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Bulgarian
1 entries- варо́вик noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Burmese
1 entries- ထုံးကျောက် noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Catalan
1 entries- pedra calcària noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 灰岩 noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- 石灰岩 noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- 青石 noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- tenextetl noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Czech
1 entries- vápenec noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Danish
1 entries- kalksten noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Dutch
1 entries- kalksteen noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Esperanto
1 entries- kalkoŝtono noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Estonian
1 entries- lubjakivi noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Finnish
2 entries- kalkki noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- kalkkikivi noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
French
1 entries- calcaire noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Galician
1 entries- calcaria noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Georgian
1 entries- კირქვა noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
German
3 entries- Calciumcarbonat noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- Kalk noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- Kalkstein noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Greek
1 entries- ασβεστόλιθος noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Hebrew
2 entries- אֶבֶן גִּיר noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- גִּיר noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Hindi
1 entries- चूना पत्थर noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Hungarian
1 entries- mészkő noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Icelandic
1 entries- kalksteinn noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Indonesian
1 entries- batu kapur noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Ingrian
2 entries- kalkki noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- kalkkikivi noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Irish
2 entries- aolchloch noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- cloch aoil noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Italian
1 entries- calcare noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Japanese
1 entries- 石灰岩 noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Kazakh
1 entries- әктас noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Khmer
2 entries- កំបោរថ្ម noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- ថ្មកំបោរ noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Korean
1 entries- 석회암 noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- акиташ noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Lao
1 entries- ຫິນປູນ noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Latin
1 entries- calx noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Latvian
1 entries- kaļķakmens noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Lithuanian
1 entries- klintis noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Macedonian
1 entries- варовник noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Malay
1 entries- batu kapur noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Mongolian
1 entries- шохойн чулуу noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Māori
1 entries- pākeho noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Norman
1 entries- pièrre dé caux noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kalkstein noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kalkstein noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Occitan
2 entries- calcari noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- calquièr noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Persian
1 entries- سنگ آهک noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Pitjantjatjara
1 entries- arpata noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Kaulkjsteen noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Polish
1 entries- wapień noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Portuguese
1 entries- calcário noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Romanian
1 entries- calcar noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Russian
1 entries- известня́к noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- krȅčnjāk noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- vapnénac noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- вапне́нац noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- кре̏чња̄к noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Slovak
1 entries- vápenec noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Slovene
1 entries- apnenec noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Spanish
1 entries- caliza noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Swedish
1 entries- kalksten noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Tajik
1 entries- оҳаксанг noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Tatar
1 entries- известьташ noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Thai
1 entries- หินปูน noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Tibetan
2 entries- རྡོ་ཐལ་བྲག noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- རྡོ་ཐལ་རྡོ noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Turkish
2 entries- kireç taşı noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- küfeki (fossiliferous limestone) noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Turkmen
1 entries- hek daşy noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вапня́к noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Urdu
1 entries- چونا پتھر noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Uyghur
1 entries- ھاك تېشى noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Uzbek
1 entries- ohaktosh noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đá vôi noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Welsh
2 entries- calchfaen noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
- carreg galch noun (abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The bristlecones grow well in limestone soil. Most trees do not grow well in such soil.
Source: tatoeba (6331958)
Most structures that we call "coral" are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps. Each soft-bodied polyp—most no thicker than a nickel—secretes a hard outer skeleton of limestone (calcium carbonate) that attaches either to rock or the dead skeletons of other polyps.
Source: tatoeba (6684491)
In the case of stony or hard corals, these polyp conglomerates grow, die, and endlessly repeat the cycle over time, slowly laying the limestone foundation for coral reefs and giving shape to the familiar corals that reside there. Because of this cycle of growth, death, and regeneration among individual polyps, many coral colonies can live for a very long time.
Source: tatoeba (6684493)
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