calcifying in English

verb

1

harden by deposition of or conversion into calcium carbonate or some other insoluble calcium compounds.

calcified cartilage

Use "calcifying" in a sentence

1. Bryozoans are calcifying animals

2. What does Calcification mean? A calcifying; specif., the deposition of calcium salts in bodily tissues

3. 22 Coralline algae along with other calcifying organisms, including coral and mollusk, are especially vulnerable to acid environment.

4. Primary mineralization was characterized by the occurrence of active forming cells, extracellular matrix vesicles and calcifying calcospheritic structures.

5. Calcifying marine phytoplankton—coccolithophores— are some of the most successful yet enigmatic organisms in the ocean and are at risk from global change

6. Crustose coralline algae (CCA) are a variation of calcifying red autotrophic algae and comprise the third most diversified group of rhodophytes in marine environments today

7. Calcify (third-person singular simple present calcifies, present participle Calcifying, simple past and past participle calcified) To make something hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts

8. This unusual partnership between a Cyanobacterium and a unicellular alga is a model for symbiosis and is analogous to plastid and organismal evolution, and if calcifying, may have important implications for past and present oceanic N2 fixation

9. Calcify From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Chemistry Calcify cal‧ci‧fy / ˈkælsɪfaɪ / verb ( calcified , Calcifying , calcifies ) [ intransitive, transitive ] HARD technical to become hard , or make something hard, by adding lime → See Verb table Origin Calcify …

10. Inflections of 'Calcify' (v): (⇒ conjugate) calcifies v 3rd person singular Calcifying v pres p verb, present participle: -ing verb used descriptively or to form progressive verb--for example, "a singing bird," "It is singing." calcified v past verb, past simple: Past tense--for example, "He saw the man."