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Etymology
[edit]From Spanish caliche, from Latin calx (“pebble”); compare chalk.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]caliche (countable and uncountable, plural caliches)
- (mineralogy) A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer.
- A layer of hard clay subsoil or sedimentary rock; hardpan.
- 1929, Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas, US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, page 44:
- According to local well drillers, in wells drilled on the high plains a few hundred feet back from the caliche escarpment or in other locations on the high plains in this area no hard caliche or white layer, such as would characterize a soft layer of high lime-carbonate content, is generally reached at a depth corresponding to the elevation of the caliche escarpment.
- 1985, Julie Behrend Weinberg, Growing Food In the High Desert Country, page 17:
- Having a layer of caliche at depths of 16 inches and less really puts a damper on the garden site. The caliche does not allow roots to penetrate it (tree roots often take 10 years to break through a caliche layer) nor does this mineral allow water to drain.
- 2011, Hüseyin Yalçin, Ömer Bozkaya, “Chapter 7: Sepiolite-Palygorskite Occurrences in Turkey”, in Arieh Singer, Emilio Galan, editors, Developments in Palygorskite-Sepiolite Research, page 186:
- Caliche in various forms, namely powdery, nodule, tube, fracture-infill, laminar crust, hard laminated crust (hardpan) and pisolitic crust, is widespread in the Mersin area in southern Turkey (Eren et al., 2008; Kadir and Eren, 2008).
Translations
[edit]mineral — see Chile saltpetre
layer of hard subsoil — see hardpan
Anagrams
[edit]Sardinian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin calix, calicem, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]caliche m (plural caliches)
- (Nuorese) cup, wine glass, chalice
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]caliche m (plural caliches)
- saltpeter
- salitre
- (El Salvador) jargon
- Synonym: jerga
Further reading
[edit]- “caliche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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