Composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk.
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Examples for "calcareous "
Examples for "calcareous "
1 In others, again, the primary crystals are siliceous, and the secondary calcareous .
2 The mountains are quite barren here; calcareous rock predominates, with some flint.
3 An incrustation of calcareous and animal matter, coating the tidal-rocks at Ascension.
4 That they, with all the calcareous stones and earths, are animal remains.
5 But little calcareous matter was found elsewhere than on the southern shores.
1 His domain abounded in those bright chalky streams which the trout love.
2 I skim the chalky meltwater too closely; the cold scalds my ventrum.
3 The sun was hot and the hills chalky over which we passed.
4 She was still alive under the chalky carapace, but soon wouldn't be.
5 The coast is steep and bold, and full of white chalky patches.
6 It is composed of a chalky limestone, the rocks everywhere showing themselves.
7 The chalky look died out of his face, and he flushed hotly.
8 Nor did I ever meet with or hear of a chalky soil.
9 His face was of a chalky pallor, and he coughed badly too.
10 The small amount of water in the bowl will turn chalky white.
11 On chalky soils like this, yew woodland can become the dominant vegetation.
12 Bread is nothing like the original grain, loose, hard, chalky , and bland!
13 Dick's blue eyes were sunken and dim, his lips chalky and parched.
14 Each piece was a chalky white, the surfaces pitted, in places roughened.
15 Her unmade-up eyes looked tired against the chalky pallor of her face.
16 Smythe's face went a chalky white, and he let go of her.
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