Adjective : calcareous earth. From Dictionary.com.
Her work showed that carrizaleños were highly skilled builders, who used local resources (such as calcareous stone) for construction. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeology and Architecture « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference
Very calcareous water must be freed from lime before use. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
Among the neighbouring calcareous strata are several crevices. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
It perforates calcareous schists, and is ventilated by 14 shafts. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Everywhere was the universal whiteness of the calcareous deposit. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
Fahr., rising from a calcareous rock at the foot of the wooded Monti. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The calcareous or lime hangings on the walls and ceilings of a cavern. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages] Reference
If the soil is not calcareous by nature, it must be made so artificially. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
It is excavated in soft calcareous stone and its chambers and corridors are. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Just don't use it or a vinegar-based cleaner on a calcareous-stone countertop. From Wordnik.com. [Homemade cleaners can save you money] Reference
After this, no more calcareous matter will be needed in fifteen or twenty years. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
Dry weather, and the lack of calcareous manures in the soil, will cause many pops. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
The three lobes are encrusted on their vesical surfaces with a thick calcareous deposit. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The diamonds have their home in beds of clay, which are usually covered with calcareous rock. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Yeast has no action on malate of lime, or on other calcareous salts formed by vegetable acids. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The rocks are calcareous, and most of the paths which traverse this region are excessively stony. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
= -- We have already intimated that a calcareous soil is indispensable to successful Peanut culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
Tartar, a creamy, calcareous deposit, supposed to be from the saliva, will sometimes cause toothache. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
The water from the neighbourhood of Rome rapidly encrusted channels and pipes with calcareous deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
Indeed, more pounds per acre may be grown upon some stiff lands than on any light soil, however calcareous. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
At the foot of a calcareous ridge, which connects Mt. Moucherotte, 7454 ft., with Mt. Moucherolle, 7509 ft. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Nuoro, 4390 feet high, is calcareous, as are two others, between 2000 and 3000 feet high, in the same chain. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
In all cases the soil most suitable for the Peanut must contain a certain amount of calcareous constituents. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
It tends to make calcareous deposits in your system, and it will affect the blood and the muscles and the bones. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
The soil should be a dry, calcareous loam, sufficiently deep, say three feet; if possible, draining itself readily. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference
But avoid cleaning products that contain lemon, vinegar, or other acids, especially if your countertops are calcareous. From Wordnik.com. [Protect Your Investment: Stone Countertops] Reference
This tablet of calcareous stone with a rounded top, is about seven feet high, and is completely covered by the inscription. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The Pont-à-Dieu is a calcareous rock which spans the Siagne in the form of a bridge, like the “Pont” across the Ardèche. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The water finds its way to the surface through deep-lying cretaceous strata, and contains a great deposit of calcareous material. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
To the N. of Vence is a row of four calcareous mountain cliffs, extending eastward to the Var, and each about 2000 ft. above the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The water must be free from calcareous salts; these salts converting the iron into carbonates which impart an ochrey tinge to the proof. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
Blue Bice, Iris, Terre Bleu, was prepared, when true, from the Armenian stone, which is a calcareous kind of stone coloured with copper. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Vaucluse (p. 64), this cavern or “foux,” at the base of a calcareous cliff, contains a great basin of limpid water, but no stalactites. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Mr. Treyves has personally some plantings of walnut in Sologne, (where calcareous soils are lacking) and in Champagne, where the soils lack lime. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
In this range it is most frequent in calcareous soils, reaching its best development in rich woodland, but persisting on poorer upland soils also. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
From Solliès-Pont commences the beautiful part of the route, up the fertile valley of the Gapeau between lofty and precipitous calcareous mountains. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
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