calcifugous

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   growing or living in acid soil

   Antonymscalcicolous

Questions about calcifugous

What does calcifugous mean?

calcifugous means "growing or living in acid soil".

How many syllables are in calcifugous?

calcifugous has 4 syllables: cal-ci-fu-gous. The stress falls on "ci".

What is the opposite of calcifugous?

The recorded antonyms are calcicolous.

Is calcifugous a common word?

calcifugous 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.