Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Producing or containing lime; calcophorous: as, the calcigerous tubules of bone.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Holding lime or other earthy salts.

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  • adjective Containing lime.

Etymologies

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From Latin calcis ("genitive singular of calx (chalk, limestone)") +‎ -gerous (“bearing”); compare calciferous.

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