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Calcarine :: Calcarine (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain..

Cockup :: Cockup (n.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti..

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.

Calcareo-bituminous :: Calcareo-bituminous (a.) Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen..

Semicalcareous :: Semicalcareous (a.) Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant..

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..

Hepar :: Hepar (n.) Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/)..

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..

Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral..

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..

Coralline :: Coralline (n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches..

Spicule :: Spicule (n.) Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria..

Silicicalcareous :: Silicicalcareous (a.) Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.

Proostracum :: Proostracum (n.) The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone..

Spirillum :: Spirifer (n.) Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side..

Concretion :: Concretion (n.) A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay..

Sclerobase :: Sclerobase (n.) 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..

Calcareo-argillaceous :: Calcareo-argillaceous (a.) consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths..

Calcify :: Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Ossicle :: Ossicle (n.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes..

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