"calcigerous" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin calcis (“genitive singular of calx (chalk, limestone)”) + -gerous (“bearing”); compare calciferous.",
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      "form": "more calcigerous",
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      "form": "most calcigerous",
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          "text": "1839, R. Harlan, letter to the editor, J. V. C. Smith (editor), The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 20, page 72,\nThese calcigerous tubes do not run in a straight line, but their general tendency is a curvature upwards, and, in addition to which, each line or tube is distinctly waved in itself."
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          "ref": "1842, Richard Owen, Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth: Mylodon robustus, Owen",
          "text": "The cement is traversed by numerous fine calcigerous tubes continued in many parts from those of the hard dentine, but having a less regular course, which is however generally at right angles to the surface: they terminate principally in minute branches, which form a rich plexus around the calcigerous cells with which they communicate.",
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          "text": "From 89-95 per cent of all urinary calculi are reported as being calcigerous in nature.",
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        "Containing lime."
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          "sense": "containing lime",
          "word": "calciferous"
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  "word": "calcigerous"
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