Usage examples for calcareous
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Calcareous matter poured out by springs. – The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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Calcareous, consisting of, or containing, carbonate of lime. – A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. MacLean
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The reason of this poverty ought perhaps to be sought in the want of chalk or basic calcareous rocks, which prevails in the parts of Japan which we visited. – The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by A.E. Nordenskieold