calciferous


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calciferous

[kal′sif·ə·rəs]
(biology)
Containing or producing calcium or calcium carbonate.
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Esophagus with intramural mesially free calciferous lamellae in 13.
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Calciferous glands (difficult to see in type material; not present in comparative material, having been removed by Michaelsen (1918: 331-332) for a study with its particular description): Half-globular in 9-10; closely connected to oesophagus; dorsally and ventrally separated.
The role of museums in safeguarding biodiversity: a happy end of the century-long saga of Tritogenia zuluensis (Beddard, 1907) (Oligochaeta: Tritogeniidae)
Many studies have demonstrated a link between breast cancer prevention and increased consumption of calciferous vegetables and antioxidant-rich foods.
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Her image was shaped from thousands of tiny pieces of smalta, calciferous glass melted in a special way.
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This is achieved by the action of the worm's calciferous gland and the buffering action of carbonic acid (Lawrence and London, 1997).
TOXICITY OF IMIDACLOPRID (NICOTINOID) AGAINST EARTHWORM, PHERETIMA POSTHUMA WITH REFERENCE TO ITS EFFECTS ON PROTEIN
General effects reported rang from loss of appetite, poor food efficiency, reduced gut absorption enlarged liver, kidney and lung, fatty hepatic necrosis, haemolysis, calciferous myocardial lesions and even death (Oyewole & Olayinka, 2007).
Funcao protetora de gengibre e curcumina contra alguns efeitos toxicologicos induzidos por oleo de algodao frito termoxidado
Yet despite transmigrasi, there has been no wholesale conversion to irrigation-based wet-rice production; Timorese soils, as observed above, are in most areas calciferous and loamy and thus unsuitable for ploughing, and if local myth is any indication, the habits of swidden are deeply rooted in local psyches.
Aquatic identities, fluid economies: water affinities and authenticating narratives of belonging in East Timorese myth and ritual
The soils are fertile, especially at lower altitudes, because the crumbling substance originating from the calciferous bedrock (diabase-rich or siliceous rocks, i.e., granite-gneisses and quartzites; Piirainen et al.
Does moose browsing threaten European aspen regeneration in Koli National Park, Finland?
And in Springs and Rocks, 1995, twelve jagged, calciferous stones quarried from the hole-riddled bedrock upon which much of Paris sits (in places unstably) were each bolted to a spring cable so that they dangled nearly to the floor like antitrophies (a negation of the apostles, the months in the calendar, the notes in an octave, the sign of the zodiac, and so on), as if playing an underworld role opposite Solarium's materialization of warmth.
Veronique Joumard: Le Credac
luridata, two closely related species on calciferous rocks.
Primer catalogo de liquenes y hongos liquenicolas de la Comunidad Autonoma de Castilla y Leon (Espana)
It has been shown at Biosphere 2 that such changes lead to a reduction in carbonate fixation among calciferous organisms like corals: doubling the C[O.sub.2] in the air would reduce the rate of coral growth by about 40 percent.
A robust strategy for sustainable energy
My brother and I used to collect these calciferous remnants of sea creatures long, long past in sandwich bags and try to sell them to the next-door neighbours for two pence a throw.
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