calcifier

noun

calcifier

noun

Etymology From calcify + -er.

1

Something which calcifies; an agent of calcification.

Many species of coral are calcifiers; this is how they construct the towering structures that become reefs.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 121:

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