Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Living upon limestone: applied to certain lichens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Eroding, or eating into, limestone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
erode limestone .
Etymologies
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Latin calx lime + vorare to devour.
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