Word Meanings - SCAGLIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A reddish variety of limestone.

Related words: (words related to SCAGLIA)

• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• REDDISH
  Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n.
• LIMESTONE
  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.
• VARIETY
  1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light.
• SUBVARIETY
  A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.
• CLIFF LIMESTONE
  A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.