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calciferous

[ kal-sif-er-uhs ]

adjective

  1. forming salts of calcium, especially calcium carbonate.
  2. containing calcium carbonate.


calciferous

/ 办忙濒藞蝉瑟蹿蓹谤蓹蝉 /

adjective

  1. forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of calciferous1

First recorded in 1790鈥1800; calci- + -ferous
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Well-made bone broth tends to be milky instead of pale, thick instead of limpid, and slightly touched with the sharp, calciferous reek of the abattoir.

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Another example is the decline of species that build calciferous shells, attributed to ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide dissolving in the seas.

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Diagrammatic vertical section, etc., to show the calciferous pillars distinguishing the species, 锟 200.

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They are composed chiefly of greenish-colored fissile sandstones and calciferous grits, in which we meet a few fossils, very imperfectly preserved.

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The calciferous sand rock, which is a silicious limestone.

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