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

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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

These calciferous glands are highly remarkable, for nothing like them is known in any other animal.

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

The calciferous sand rock, which is a silicious limestone.

From Saratoga and How to See It by R. F. Dearborn

With respect to the function of the calciferous glands, it is probable that they primarily serve as organs of excretion, and secondarily as an aid to digestion.

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

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