Usually means: Hardened calcium carbonate soil layer.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word caliche:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. caliche: Merriam-Webster
  2. caliche: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caliche: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caliche: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Caliche, caliche: Wordnik
  6. caliche: Wiktionary
  7. caliche: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. caliche: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. caliche: Dictionary.com
  10. Caliche (Mineral), Caliche (disambiguation), Caliche (mineral), Caliche: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. caliche: Rhymezone
  12. caliche: FreeDictionary.org
  13. caliche: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. caliche: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. caliche: Vocabulary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Caliche (mineral), caliche: Encyclopedia

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. caliche: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Caliche: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. caliche: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caliche)

noun:  (mineralogy) A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer.
noun:  A layer of hard clay subsoil or sedimentary rock; hardpan.

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