Caliche

Definitions: Caliche

Caliche

Noun

1. Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions.

2. Nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru.

"Caliche" is a common misspelling or typo for: calicle, chalice, cilice.

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	A more or less cemented deposit of calcium carbonate or of mixed calcium and magnesium carbonates, characteristics of soils of warm or hot desert and semi-desert regions. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	Impure natural sodium nitrate. Source: European Union. (references)
	A)a zone near the surface, more or less cemented by secondary carbonates of Ca or Mg precipitated from the soil solution; may occur as a soft, thin horizon, as a hard thick bed, or as a surface layer exposed by erosion; b)alluvium cemented with NaNO3, NaCl and/or other soluble salts in the nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru ; individual concretionary masses or nodules, generally of CaCO3, in both soil and in rock beds formed from soils, e. g. kankar, kunkur(Indian subcontinent). Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. A term applied broadly in the Southwestern United States (esp. Arizona) to a reddish-brown to buff or white calcareous material of secondary accumulation; commonly found in layers on or near the surface of stony soils of arid and semiarid regions, but also occurring as a subsoil deposit in subhumid climates. It is composed largely of crusts of soluble calcium salts in addition to such materials as gravel, sand, silt, and clay. It is called hardpan, calcareous duricrust, or calcrete in some localities, and kankar in parts of India. Syn:calcareous crust; tepetate. ---Etymol: American Spanish, from a Spanish word for almost any porous material (such as gravel) cemented by calcium carbonate b. Gravel, rock, soil, or alluvium cemented with soluble salts of sodium in the nitrate deposits of the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and Peru; it contains sodium nitrate (14% to 25%), potassium nitrate (2% to 3%), sodium iodate (up to 1%) sodium chloride, sodium sulfate, and sodium borate, mixed with brecciated clayey and sandy material in beds up to 2 m thick c. A term used in various geographic areas for a thin layer of clayey soil capping a gold vein (Peru); whitish clay in the selvage of veins (Chile); feldspar, white clay, or a compact transition limestone (Mexico); a mineral vein recently discovered, or a bank composed of clay, sand, and gravel in placer mining (Colombia). The term has been extended by someauthors to quartzite and kaolinite. (references)
Weather	Also called hardpan; an opaque, reddish-brown-to-white calcareous material, which occurs in layers near the surface of stony soils in arid and semiarid areas. (references)
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Synonym: Caliche

Synonym: hardpan (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Caliche

English words defined with "caliche": caliche-topped. (references)

Specialty definitions using "caliche": chuco ♦ tierra blanca. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Caliche" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (caliche), Spanish (caliche).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Caliche sangriento (1969)
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Domain	Title
Books	Gardening Success With Difficult Soils: Limestone, Alkaline Clay, and Caliche (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Caliche (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Little would grow in that harsh caliche soil of my country.
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"Caliche" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Caliche" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "caliche": caliche-topped.
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Language		Translations for "caliche"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		caliche. (various references)

Dutch		Caliche, kalkkorst. (various references)

Finnish		caliche, suola-aavikko (salt desert), luonnon salpietari. (various references)

French		caliche. (various references)

German		Calicho, Caliche, Kalkkruste, erdiges Rohsalz. (various references)

Greek		Caliche, ασβεστώδες περίβλημα. (various references)

Italian		caliche. (various references)

Korean		잘XX어 꼭대기에 오르�" (caliche-topped). (various references)

Pig Latin		alichecay.(various references)

Portuguese		caliche. (various references)

Russian		самородная чилийская селитра. (various references)

Spanish		caliche. (various references)

Swedish		caliche, kalkkrusta. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "caliche": caliches. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: chalice.
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-i-l"
	-1 letter: celiac, chicle, cicale, cliche, heliac.
	-2 letters: cache, cecal, chela, chiel, chile, clach, ileac, laich, leach.
	-3 letters: ache, alec, ceca, ceil, chia, chic, each, elhi, hail, hale, heal, heil, hila, ilea, lace, laic, lech, lice, lich.
	-4 letters: ace, ail, ale, cel, chi, hae, hic, hie, ice, ich, lac, lea, lei, lie.
	-5 letters: ae, ah, ai, al, eh, el, ha, he, hi, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-i-l"
	+1 letter: alchemic, caliches, cephalic, chaliced, chalices, chemical, hectical.
	+2 letters: chelicera, chemicals, cichlidae, cochineal, echolalic, technical.
	+3 letters: alchemical, catchflies, chalcocite, chelicerae, cheliceral, chemically, chimerical, cochineals, hectically, mechanical, technicals.
	+4 letters: alchemistic, archangelic, biochemical, calisthenic, catechismal, catholicate, catholicize, chalcedonic, chalcocites, chameleonic, chanticleer, chocolatier, cholestatic, geochemical, mechanicals, melancholic, nonchemical, procephalic, technically, untechnical.
	+5 letters: accomplished, accomplisher, accomplishes, agrichemical, agrochemical, alchemically, anencephalic, archetypical, archipelagic, biochemicals, biotechnical, calisthenics, catechetical, catholicates, catholicized, catholicizes, catholicoses, cephalically, chalcedonies, chalcogenide, chalcopyrite, chanticleers, chaplaincies, cherubically, chimerically, chocolatiers, cholerically, cytochemical, diencephalic, echolocation, encephalitic, geotechnical, heroicomical, hierarchical, hypocalcemia, hypocalcemic, machicolated, mechanically, melancholiac, melancholics, microcephaly, necrophiliac, nonchemicals, nontechnical, ochlocracies, technicality, technicalize, theocratical, zootechnical.
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