calcareous
Meaning of calcareous
adjective
Resembling or containing calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky.
Information about calcareous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of calcareous
cal-care-ous
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- calcareous is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
calcareous synonyms
Meaning chalky:
Translation of calcareous
- French: calcaire
- Spanish: calcáreo
- German: kalkhaltig, kalkig
Words that rhyme with calcareous
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