Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology and mineralogy, lime-yielding: as, calcariferous strata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lime-yielding; calciferous.
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- adjective
calciferous
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Examples
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M. Boussingault, in a memoir which he has recently addressed to me, calls the rock of the M.rros a problematic calcariferous gneiss.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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