The shell is flattened at each pole, and we can readily perceive that it is composed of rows of little limy plates, which are disposed in a regular manner from pole to pole, or after the fashion of the meridian lines on a globe.
The former name is applied to these creatures when they are found cast upon the shore and present the appearance of rounded or ball-shaped objects, each inclosed within a hard but brittle limy shell.
Colonies of brachiopods and other lime-secreting animals occupied the sea bottom, and their debris mantled it with sheets of limy ooze.
Where considerable mud is being deposited along with carbonate of lime there is in process of making a clayey limestone or a limy shale; where considerable sand, a sandy limestone or a limy sandstone.
White limy incrustations of this nature cover considerable tracts in northern Mexico.
Thus there are limy and clayey sandstones, sandy and clayey limestones, and sandy and limy shales.
Evaporating beneath the surface, ground water may deposit a limy cement in beds of loose sand and gravel.
When subsidence was most rapid and long continued the sea encroached far and wide upon the lowlands and covered the coal swamps with sands and muds and limy oozes.
The Lower and the Upper Huronian consist in the main of old sea muds and sands and limy oozes now changed to gneisses, schists, marbles, quartzites, slates, and other metamorphic rocks.
The outer coating is partially decomposed, exhibiting an opaque, limy appearance.
Decomposition gives its surface a dead white aspect and limy feel.
Inhumation has so far served to decompose the surface, as to coat it with a limy or chalky exterior, which effervesces in mineral acids.
Some two or three score of eggs, with delicate, rough, limy shells, about the size of those of geese, are laid in sandy cavities in the bank.
Coral-polyps= are closely related to sea-anemones, but differ from them by secreting a hard, limy skeleton in the base of the body.
There are more than sixteen tons of limy shells floating in the uppermost one hundred fathoms of every square mile of the ocean.
It is made up of about six hundred hard, limy plates arranged in double rows, which contain about thirty-seven hundred pores through which the feet protrude.
Synapta has no feet, their place seemingly being taken by peculiar limy spicules, shaped like anchors (Fig.
The whole plant is harsh to the touch and brittle, owing to the limy coating.
They are also destitute of the limy coating of the Chareæ.
The plants will flourish in almost any well-drained soil, but seem to prefer light loams of a limy nature.
Lavender succeeds best on light, limy or chalky soil, but will do well in any good loam.
It is one of the many Labiatæ found wild in limy situations along the Mediterranean coast.
In the others a strong limy skeleton was developed, and the nerves and other organs were modified in adaptation to the bud-like or flower-like structure.
We shall see that the earliest Echinoderms we know are cup-shaped structures on stalks, with a stiff, limy frame and (as in all sessile animals) a number of waving arms round the mouth.
They show their distant relationship to birds in that their large eggs are incased in a leathery, limy shell.
Either naked as Amoeba or building limy (Foraminifera) or glasslike skeletons (Radiolaria).
This process of solution, by which the limy matter deposited on the bottom is taken back into the water, goes on everywhere, but at a rate which increases with the depth.
Where the outflow is so slight that the fluid does not gather into drops, it forms an incrustation of limy matter, which often gathers in beautiful flowerlike forms, or perhaps in the shape of a sheet of alabaster.
Studying any series of limestone beds, we commonly find that each layer, in greater or less degree, is made up of rather massive materials, which evidently came to their place in the form of a limy mud.
The mineral materials originally in the once molten rock or in the limy beds was, we believe, laid down on ancient sea floors in the remains of organic forms, which for their particular uses took the materials from the old sea water.
In general, these coast deposits become more and more limy as we go toward the tropical realms, and this for the reason that the species which secrete large amounts of lime are in those regions most abundant and attain the most rapid growth.
As organic life, such as secretes limestone, is rarely developed to any extent in lake basins, limy beds are very rarely formed beneath those areas of water.
Where they occur, they are generally due to the fact that rivers charged with limy matter import such quantities of the substance that it is precipitated on the bottom.
These rocks preserve, by the fossils they contain, a great variety of shellfish which had limy skeletons.
These limy fossils might not be seen at all, were they not bedded in shales, which are very fine-grained.
Little cups budded off from their parents, but remained attached, and at length the skeletons of all formed great masses of limy rock.
The living corals one sees in the shallow water of the Florida coast to-day are building land by building up their limy skeletons.
The rocks that contain it crumble because thelimy portions have been dissolved out.
The colonies of polyps lived in tubes which lengthened gradually, forming compact, limy cylinders like organ pipes, fitted close together.
Variegated marls they are called--marl means a limy clay, loam a sandy clay; and very fine are the colours of these marls, rich reds and purples and browns.
In the oncoming of the period we find much marl--limy clay.
The limy man took his pipe from his mouth, and pointed with a comprehensive sweep of the stem at the sheds round about.
It was the limy man he had followed from Blue Gate to the Hole in the Wall, and then lost sight of.
The limy man looked ahead, and reckoned the few remaining doors to the end of Blue Gate.
You ain't my old pal, anyhow," the limy man observed.
On observing the ground, I saw that it was raised in certain places by slight excrescences encrusted with limy deposits, and disposed with a regularity that betrayed the hand of man.
Resistant to drought, vigorous, prolific; pistillate; adapted to limy and black soils of the South.
Cinerea grows along streams mostly in limy soils, and is seldom found in very dry land.
In Europe calcareous or limy soils are not considered well adapted to grape-growing, but in America we often find very good vineyards on such soils.
Munson states that in cultivation it does well in any but very limy soils.
Like Aestivalis, Bicolor does not thrive on limy soils and it is difficult to propagate from cuttings.
The two webs are now dissimilar; the Silky Epeira's has a limy spiral consisting of closer and more numerous circles.
The other swathes her in bonds, drags her to the non- limy central floor and, in the calmest fashion, eats her.
It is merely a temporary construction, whereof naught but the central part survives when the Spider has set its limy meshes.
Besides, the limy web, despite the rents suffered during the night, is still in serviceable condition.
Acid will not remove the thick, limy deposits, and they must be cleaned off by mechanical means.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
