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calciferous

ADJECTIVE
  1. bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite

How To Use calciferous In A Sentence

  • First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
  • The color of the dots was made from a mixture of hematite and red hematite which was then mixed with calciferous drops of water from the caves, according to excavation technician Maria Malina. ABC News: Top Stories
  • Chardonnay vines tend to bud early in the season and prefer calciferous soils that contain marl.
  • The report said that by 2100 the oceans could be more acidic than they have been in millions of years, leading to the death of creatures that secrete skeletal structures like coral, shellfish, and calciferous phytoplankton. The Whale Warriors
  • The hard corals still had their form in all their previous and glorious variety, but the living element, the part that grows on the calciferous skeleton and holds it all together, was missing.
  • The streams that descend from Mount Dersa cut into the permeable calciferous rock formations on which the city stands. VQR
  • In the warm, clear, nutritious waters that surrounded the shores, coral polyps began to Sourish, and slowly they left behind them as they died their tiny calciferous skeletons, a few feet below the surface of the sea. Hawaii
  • Does this increase the number of silicaceous diatoms which can outcompete the calciferous types, thereby reducing the biological pull-down? Unthreaded #10 « Climate Audit
  • Next above the Potsdam and calciferous sandrocks there appears stretching across the county a narrow belt of the Trenton period.
  • Thus Murano artisans replaced calciferous sand with quartz sand resulting in objects that were crystal-like in appearance.
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