calcareous

1. 1.

   composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk

   Synonymschalky

Questions about calcareous

What does calcareous mean?

calcareous means "composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk".

How many syllables are in calcareous?

calcareous has 4 syllables and divides as cal-ca-re-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for calcareous?

Close synonyms include chalky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calcareous a common word?

calcareous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.