Definition of calcar

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Calcar (n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence..

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Tooth :: Tooth (n.) 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..
Stalagmitic :: Stalagmite (n.) 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..
Cockup :: Cockup (n.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti..
Thinolite :: Thinolite (n.) A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada..
Testicardines :: Testicardines (n. pl.) A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.
Echinoidea :: Echinoidea (n. pl.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid..
Coralline :: Coralline (n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches..
Hepar :: Hepar (n.) Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/)..
Serpula :: Serpula (n.) 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..
Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits..
Lates :: Lates (n.) A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer) is found in the Ganges and other Indian rivers. They are valued as food fishes..
Calcarate :: Calcarate (a.) Alt. of Calcarate.
Calcify :: Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Calcar :: Calcar (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight..
Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral..
Lady :: Lady (n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.
Turbo :: Turbo (n.) 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..
Decalcification :: Decalcification (n.) The removal of calcareous matter.
Calcaria :: Calcaria (pl. ) of Calca.
Belemnite :: Belemnite (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages..
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