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calcareous
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calcareous
(encz) | calcareous,vápenný Jiří Šmoldas |
calcareous
(encz) | calcareous,vápnitý Jiří Šmoldas |
Calcareous
(gcide) | Calcareous \Cal*ca"re*ous\, a. [L. calcarius pertaining to lime.
See Calx.]
Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate;
consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate
of lime.
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Calcareous spar. See as Calcite.
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calcareous
(wn) | calcareous
adj 1: composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate
or calcite or chalk [syn: calcareous, chalky] |
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calcareous
(encz) | calcareous,vápenatý Jiří Šmoldascalcareous,vápenný Jiří Šmoldascalcareous,vápnitý Jiří Šmoldas |
Argillo-calcareous
(gcide) | Argillo-calcareous \Ar*gil`lo-cal*ca"re*ous\, a.
Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth.
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Calcareous sinter
(gcide) | Sinter \Sin"ter\, n. [G. Cf. Cinder.] (Min.)
Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when
hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.
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Calcareous sinter, a loose banded variety of calcite formed
by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa;
travertine.
Ceraunian sinter, fulgurite.
Siliceous sinter, a light cellular or fibrous opal;
especially, geyserite (see Geyserite). It has often a
pearly luster, and is then called pearl sinter.
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calcareous spar
(gcide) | Calcite \Cal"cite\ (k[a^]l"s[imac]t), n. [L. calx, calcis,
lime.] (Min.)
Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral
in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from
aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble.
Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.
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Note: Argentine is a pearly lamellar variety; aphrite is
foliated or chalklike; dogtooth spar, a form in acute
rhombohedral or scalenohedral crystals; calc-sinter and
calc-tufa are lose or porous varieties formed in
caverns or wet grounds from calcareous deposits; agaric
mineral is a soft, white friable variety of similar
origin; stalaclite and stalagmite are varieties formed
from the drillings in caverns. Iceland spar is a
transparent variety, exhibiting the strong double
refraction of the species, and hence is called doubly
refracting spar.
[1913 Webster]Calcareous \Cal*ca"re*ous\, a. [L. calcarius pertaining to lime.
See Calx.]
Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate;
consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate
of lime.
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Calcareous spar. See as Calcite.
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Calcareous spar
(gcide) | Calcite \Cal"cite\ (k[a^]l"s[imac]t), n. [L. calx, calcis,
lime.] (Min.)
Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral
in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from
aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble.
Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.
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Note: Argentine is a pearly lamellar variety; aphrite is
foliated or chalklike; dogtooth spar, a form in acute
rhombohedral or scalenohedral crystals; calc-sinter and
calc-tufa are lose or porous varieties formed in
caverns or wet grounds from calcareous deposits; agaric
mineral is a soft, white friable variety of similar
origin; stalaclite and stalagmite are varieties formed
from the drillings in caverns. Iceland spar is a
transparent variety, exhibiting the strong double
refraction of the species, and hence is called doubly
refracting spar.
[1913 Webster]Calcareous \Cal*ca"re*ous\, a. [L. calcarius pertaining to lime.
See Calx.]
Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate;
consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate
of lime.
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Calcareous spar. See as Calcite.
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calcareous tufa
(gcide) | Tufa \Tu"fa\, [It. fufo soft, sandy stone, L. tofus, tophus. Cf.
Tofus, Toph, and Tophin.] (Min.)
(a) A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water,
usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa.
(b) A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of
consolidated cinders, or scoria.
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Calcareousness
(gcide) | Calcareousness \Cal*ca"re*ous*ness\, n.
Quality of being calcareous.
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Corneocalcareous
(gcide) | Corneocalcareous \Cor"ne*o*cal*ca"re*ous\
(k?rn?-?-k?l-k?"r?-?s), a.
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1. (Zool.) Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous
materials, as some shells and corals.
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2. Horny on one side and calcareous on the other.
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Micaceo-calcareous
(gcide) | Micaceo-calcareous \Mi*ca`ce*o-cal*ca"re*ous\, a. (Geol.)
Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime;
-- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.
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Semicalcareous
(gcide) | Semicalcareous \Sem`i*cal*ca"re*ous\, a.
Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.
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Silicicalcareous
(gcide) | Silicicalcareous \Si*lic`i*cal*ca"re*ous\, a.
Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.
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calcareous
(wn) | calcareous
adj 1: composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate
or calcite or chalk [syn: calcareous, chalky] |
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