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calcareous

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Definition:
an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky. The term is used in a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

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[...] the glum, barrel-chested Indian, whose well-knit sorrel-red face had degenerated rapidly into a dilapidated, calcareous gray.

Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.348 (1961)
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It would not thrive in calcareous soil and it had to be watered from below. It needed pampering.

Stieg Larsson. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Reg Keeland translation), p.5 (2009)
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a kind of calcareous tube, edged with leafy folds, and much debated by amateurs

Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
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