calcareous
pronunciation
How to pronounce calcareous in British English:
UK [kæl'keərɪəs]
How to pronounce calcareous in American English:
US [kæl'kerɪrs]
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- Adjective:
- composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk
Word Origin
- calcareous (adj.)
- also calcarious, 1670s, from Latin calcarius "of lime," from calx (genitive calcis) "lime, limestone" (see chalk (n.)).
Example
- 1. The soil is thin and calcareous , making agriculture very difficult .
- 2. Damage-slide coupled interaction behavior of undrained calcareous sand .
- 3. Ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone ; alabaster , crude or trimmed .
- 4. Calcite cementation seens a possibility where lime grains or calcareous organisms are abundant .
- 5. Lower and middle eocene calcareous nannofossils from the southwestern continental shelf basin of the east china sea .