Calcareous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kælˈkɛəɹi.əs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Calcareous is an adjective meaning Resembling, containing, or composed of calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky.
Meaning
Resembling, containing, or composed of calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky.
More Meanings
- (botany) Growing in a chalky habitat.
Example Sentences
Instead, the spoil will be used in part to create 127 hectares of new calcareous grassland (alkaline grassland), woodland, wood pasture, and wetland habitats.
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[.]
Cellariiform, the orifices nearly confined to the convex frontal and lateral surfaces; the basal surface with a strong median calcareous keel, almost concealed by a flat membranous epitheca, which covers the whole zoarium […]
The next morning I went to see the hot-springs and mud volcanoes, for which this place is celebrated. A picturesque path among plantations and ravines brought us to a beautiful circular basin about forty feet in diameter, bordered by a calcareous ledge, so uniform and truly curved, that it looked like a work of art.
Synonyms for calcareous
Depending on context, synonyms include chalky.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include chalky, limestone, lime, operculum, calcitic, calciferous.
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