Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Combining form of
calcareous (Latin calcarius).
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Examples
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This change in the vegetation marks the commencement of the grand calcareo-argillaceous deposit, which forms the wide extent of the Pampas, and covers the granitic rocks of Banda Oriental.
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This change in the vegetation marks the commencement of the grand calcareo-argillaceous deposit, which forms the wide extent of the Pampas, and covers the granitic rocks of Banda Oriental.
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This change in the vegetation marks the commencement of the grand calcareo argillaceous deposit, which forms the wide extent of the Pampas, and covers the granitic rocks of Banda Oriental.
Chapter IV 1909
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This change in the vegetation marks the commencement of the grand calcareo-argillaceous deposit, which forms the wide extent of the Pampas, and covers the granitic rocks of Banda Oriental.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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Over the lower bed of conglomerate, which here, as on the east coast, is of great thickness, we find a bed of gray stratified clay, containing a few calcareo-argillaceous nodules.
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W. Habitat in monte calcareo insulae Adscensio - nis.
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Florae Goettingensis spécimen, sistens vegetabilîa saxo calcareo propria, vide supra pag.
Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ... 1797
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ON THE TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY the upper part of which are occasional strata of a calcareo-argillaceous shale, abound - ing in fossils, among which the commonest are Area grandis and JPleurotoma virgo.
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