資料來源 : pyDict

變成石灰質,鈣化使成石灰

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Calcify \Cal"ci*fy\ (k[a^]l"s[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Calcified} (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Calcifying}.] [L.
   calx, calcis, lime + -fy.]
   To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of
   salts of lime.

Calcify \Cal"ci*fy\, v. i.
   To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in
   which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of
   teeth.

資料來源 : WordNet®

calcify
     v 1: become impregnated with calcium salts [ant: {decalcify}]
     2: become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks can calcify"
     3: turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock calcified over
        the centuries"
     4: convert into lime; "the salts calcified the rock"
     [also: {calcified}]