limestone

English

Etymology

From lime +‎ stone.

Noun

limestone (countable and uncountable, plural limestones)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• lime
• calcium carbonate

Hyponyms

• (mineralogy): bluestone, burrstone, calp, coquina, coral rag, chalk, malm, marble, travertine, tufa

Derived terms

• hydraulic limestone
• Limestone County
• limestone hawksbeard
• limestone pavement

 

Translations

abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments

• Armenian: կրաքար (hy) (krakʻar)
• Belarusian: вапня́к m (vapnják)
• Bengali: ঘুটিং (ghuṭiṅ)
• Bulgarian: варо́вик (varóvik)
• Burmese: ထုံးကျောက် (my) (htum:kyauk)
• Catalan: pedra calcària
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石灰岩 (zh) (shíhuīyán)

• Classical Nahuatl: tenextetl
• Czech: vápenec (cs) m
• Danish: kalksten (da) c
• Dutch: kalksteen (nl) n
• Esperanto: kalkoŝtono (eo)
• Estonian: lubjakivi
• Finnish: kalkkikivi (fi)
• French: calcaire (fr)
• Galician: calcaria f
• German: Kalkstein (de) m, Calciumcarbonat n, Kalk (de) m
• Greek: ασβεστόλιθος (el) (asvestólithos)
• Hebrew: גיר (he) m (gir), אבן גיר f (even gir)
• Hungarian: mészkő (hu)
• Icelandic: kalksteinn (is)
• Indonesian: batu kapur (id)
• Irish: aolchloch f, cloch aoil f
• Italian: calcare (it) m
• Japanese: 石灰岩 (せっかいがん, sekkaigan)
• Korean: 석회암 (ko) (seokhoeam)
• Latin: calx f
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• Latvian: kaļķakmens m
• Lithuanian: klintis m
• Maori: pākeho
• Norman: pièrre dé caux f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalkstein m

  Nynorsk: kalkstein m

• Occitan: calcari m, calquièr m
• Persian: سنگ آهک (sang âhak)
• Pitjantjatjara: arpata
• Polish: wapień (pl) m
• Portuguese: calcário (pt) m
• Romanian: calcar (ro)
• Russian: известня́к (ru) m (izvestnják)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кре̏чња̄к m, вапне́нац m

  Roman: krȅčnjāk (sh) m, vapnénac (sh) m

• Slovak: vápenec (sk)
• Slovene: apnenec (sl)
• Spanish: caliza (es) f
• Swedish: kalksten (sv)
• Thai: หินปูน (th) (hǐn-bpuun)
• Turkish: kireç taşı
• Ukrainian: вапня́к (uk) m (vapnják)
• Uyghur: ھاك تېشى (hak tëshi)
• Vietnamese: đá vôi (vi)
• Welsh: calchfaen m, carreg galch f

Adjective

limestone (not comparable)

1. Made of or with limestone.
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     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.

Translations

made of or with limestone

• Finnish: kalkkikivinen, kalkkikivi- (fi)
• Galician: calcario m, calcaria f
• German: Kalk-
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• Portuguese: calcário (pt) m, calcária f
• Spanish: calizo m, caliza (es) f
• Tagalog: batong-apog
• Welsh: calch, calchfaen

See also

• karst

Anagrams

• lemoniest, milestone