Noun: caliche
| Singular | caliche |
| Plural | caliches |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1929, Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas, US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, page 44:]
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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. [1985, Julie Behrend Weinberg, Growing Food In the High Desert Country, page 17:]
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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). [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:]
Nouns inflected like caliche
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Spanish caliche, from Latin calx (“pebble”); compare chalk. See: Spanish Nouns '
caliche', Latin Nouns '
calx'.