calciferous

1. 1.

   bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite

Questions about calciferous

What does calciferous mean?

calciferous means "bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite".

How many syllables are in calciferous?

calciferous has 4 syllables and divides as cal-ci-fe-rous 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.

Is calciferous a common word?

calciferous 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.