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

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calciferous

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

The large quantity of carbonate of lime secreted by the calciferous glands apparently serves to neutralise the acids thus generated; for the digestive fluid of worms will not act unless it be alkaline.

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

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 Charles Darwin

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 W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds

From this and other such cases I am led to suspect that the calciferous cells are developed from the larger nucleated ones; but how this was effected was not ascertained.

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