caliche | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun caliche has 2 senses

caliche, hardpan - crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
--₁ is a kind of soil, dirt
caliche - nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru
--₂ is a kind of rock, stone

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