calciferous

American  

[kal-sif-er-uhs] / kælˈsɪf ər əs /

adjective

1. forming salts of calcium, especially calcium carbonate.

2. containing calcium carbonate.

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calciferous British  

/ kælˈsɪfərəs /

adjective

1. forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate

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Etymology

Origin of calciferous

First recorded in 1790–1800; calci- + -ferous

Example Sentences

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2017

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

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

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

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

It was thus evident that the concretions are formed from the lime contained within the free calciferous cells.

From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Darwin, Charles

Worms therefore would be liable to become charged with this earth, unless there were some special means for its excretion; and the calciferous glands are well adapted for this purpose.

From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Darwin, Charles