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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