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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) caliche
a surface deposit of sodium nitrate found in South American desert areas: formerly a major source of chemical fertilizer.

2. caliche
a zone of calcium carbonate or other carbonates in soils of semiarid regions.

Etymology: (1855–60; < Sp: flake of lime)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) caliche, hardpan
crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions

2. (noun) caliche
nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru

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