calcareous
/kælˈkɛəɹi.əs/
calcareous adjective: resembling, containing, or composed of calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky.
Adjective
calcareous (comparative more calcareous, superlative most calcareous)
- Resembling, containing, or composed of calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky.
- 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...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 405
- 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[.]1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 15
- Growing in a chalky habitat.
calcareous meaning in Tamil
calcareous in Tamil
- சுண்ணாம்புள்ள, சுண்ணாம்பு நிரை, சுண்ணத்தாலான, சுண்ணாம்புக்குரிய, சுண்ணமிகு, சுண்ணாம்பு நிரம்பிய
Examples of calcareous in a sentence
- Foraminifera are single-cell microcrustaceans with a calcareous shell, which is a shell made of calcium carbonate.
- Unit 4 is a phytoclastic and (to a minor extent) phytostromatic and phytohermal calcareous tufa deposited by a fresh water river.
- Our native beech is undoubtedly the most noble large tree for calcareous soils and is excellent for hedgemaking.
Forms of calcareous
| comparative | more calcareous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most calcareous |
Origin of calcareous
Learned borrowing from Latin calcārius (“of or pertaining to lime”), derived from calx (“lime”). Similar to calcium.
Words formed from calcareous
Phrases with calcareous
Words that rhyme with calcareous
- cibarious
- scarious
- Stradivarius
- tartareous
- vagarious
- vicarious
- Aquarius
- atrabilarious
- contrarious
- hilarious
- lampadarius
- librarius
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- malarious
- multifarious
- omnifarious
- precarious
- riparious
- testudinarious
- various
- acinarious
- adversarious
- anticarious
- apocrisarius
- apocrisiarius
- arbitrarious
- arenarious
- argillocalcareous
- armarius
- assarius
- atramentarious
- Belisarius
- bordarius
- burglarious
- caeremoniarius
- calcarious
- carious
- confessarius
- corneo-calcareous
- cotarius
- duplicarius
- filarious
- fimetarious
- frumentarious
- glareous
- howlarious
- lapidarious
- librarious
- multivarious
- nectareous
- nectarious
- nefarious
- nightmarious
- noncalcareous
- noncarious
- nongregarious
- nonmalarious
- nonvicarious
- octarius
- octofarious
- octonarius
Questions about calcareous
- What does calcareous mean?
- Calcareous means resembling, containing, or composed of calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky.
- What is calcareous in Tamil?
- Calcareous in Tamil is சுண்ணாம்புள்ள, சுண்ணாம்பு நிரை, சுண்ணத்தாலான. See Calcareous meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is calcareous?
- Calcareous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce calcareous?
- Calcareous is pronounced /kælˈkɛəɹi.əs/.
Words near calcareous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: calcareous (page history and authors); calcareous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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