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A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa.
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consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.
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Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
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A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.
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Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.
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Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth.
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The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma.
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Quality of being calcareous.
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Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths.
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Any one of numerous species of Bryozoa belonging to Tubulipora and allied genera, having tubular calcareous calicles.
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Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
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A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.
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Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
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A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.
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One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
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A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.
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The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
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The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.
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Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.
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Calcareous tufa.
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