limy

American  

[lahy-mee] / ˈlaɪ mi /

adjective

limier, limiest

1. consisting of, containing, or like lime.

2. smeared with birdlime.

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limy ¹ British  

/ ˈlaɪmɪ /

adjective

1. of, like, or smeared with birdlime

2. containing or characterized by the presence of lime

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limy ² British  

/ ˈlaɪmɪ /

adjective

1. of or tasting of lime (the fruit)

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Other Word Forms

• liminess
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of limy

First recorded in 1545–55; lime ² + -y ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

limy limier

Beneath six inches of limy earth, one of Bellante's men struck a marble fragment shaped like the calf of a human leg, about twice lifesize.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the lower end of the egg-duct there is secreted a limy liquid which covers the shell-less egg and hardens, making the shell.

From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Margaret Warner Morley

But the skeletons, with the exception of the teeth, were reduced to a complete limy substance, and their forms destroyed.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The living corals one sees in the shallow water of the Florida coast to-day are building land by building up their limy skeletons.

From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Julia Ellen Rogers

The colonies of polyps lived in tubes which lengthened gradually, forming compact, limy cylinders like organ pipes, fitted close together.

From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Julia Ellen Rogers

Limerence She says, from the French word limier.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander

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