limesand
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A course sediment found in the seabed containing primarily ground up shells, sometimes used in agriculture as an acidity regulator.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This field had had on it about seventy loads of muck per acre, which alone did no good until an application of limesand was given."
- "The middle part is a limesand consisting of 15-25% recognisable shell fragments cemented by aragonite. In the whole rock there is almost no quartz. Nearer the shore the limesand is replaced by lime-mud, ..."