limestone

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Noun

limestone (plural limestones)

1. (mineralogy) An abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO₃); it occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.

Translations

abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments

• Armenian: կրաքար (hy) (krak'ar)
• Belarusian: вапняк (be) (vapnják) m
• Bulgarian: варовик (bg) (varóvik)
• Catalan: pedra calcària (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石灰岩 (cmn) (shíhuīyán)

• Czech: vápenec (cs) m
• Danish: kalksten (da)
• Dutch: kalksteen (nl)
• Esperanto: kalkoŝtono (eo)
• Estonian: lubjakivi (et)
• Finnish: kalkkikivi (fi)
• French: calcaire (fr)
• German: Kalkstein (de) m
• Greek: ασβεστόλιθος (el) (asvestólithos)
• Hebrew: גיר (he) (gir) m, אבן גיר (he) (even gir) f
• Hungarian: mészkő (hu)
• Icelandic: kalksteinn (is)
• Indonesian: batu kapur (id)
• Italian: calcare (it) m
• Japanese: 石灰岩 (ja) (せっかいがん, sekkaigan)
• Jèrriais: pièrre dé caux f

• Korean: 석회암 (ko) (seokhoe-am)
• Latvian: kaļķakmens (lv) m
• Lithuanian: klintis (lt) m
• Maori: pākeho (mi)
• Norwegian: kalkstein (no)
• Persian: سنگ آهک (fa) (sang âhak)
• Polish: wapień (pl) m
• Portuguese: calcário (pt) m
• Romanian: calcar (ro)
• Russian: известняк (ru) (izvestnják) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кречњак (sh) m, вапненац (sh) m

  Roman: krečnjak (sh) m, vapnenac (sh) m

• Slovak: vápenec (sk)
• Slovene: apnenec (sl)
• Spanish: caliza (es) f
• Swedish: kalksten (sv)
• Turkish: kireç taşı
• Ukrainian: вапняк (uk) (vapnják) m
• Uyghur: ھاك تېشى (hak teşi)
• Vietnamese: đá vôi (vi)
• Welsh: calchfaen

Adjective

limestone (not comparable)

1. Made of or with limestone.
   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 1/2, The Younger Set^[1]:

     The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

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