Noun
A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA 625-square-foot prewar co-op, with inlaid hardwood floors, a living room with built-in bookshelves and a windowed eat-in kitchen, in a non-doorman walk-up limestone rowhouse. Source: Internet
Able-bodied males were required to work, so from 1940 to 1944 Wojtyła variously worked as a messenger for a restaurant, a manual labourer in a limestone quarry and for the Solvay chemical factory, to avoid deportation to Germany. Source: Internet
According to a landscape report submitted by the preservation committee and shared with The New York Times, the plan will also add two limestone walkways, one to the inner perimeter of the garden. Source: Internet
A band of Middle Devonian limestone runs west to east from Cremyll to Plymstock including the Hoe. Source: Internet
A coral table reef surrounds most of Guam, and the limestone plateau provide the source for most of the island's fresh water. Source: Internet
A deposit of cement was formed after an occurrence of oil shale located adjacent to a bed of limestone burned due to natural causes. Source: Internet