calcicolous

1. 1.

   growing or living in soil rich in lime

   Antonymscalcifugous

Questions about calcicolous

What does calcicolous mean?

calcicolous means "growing or living in soil rich in lime".

How many syllables are in calcicolous?

calcicolous has 4 syllables: cal-ci-co-lous. The stress falls on "ci".

What is the opposite of calcicolous?

The recorded antonyms are calcifugous.

Is calcicolous a common word?

calcicolous 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.