Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CALC'AR-ATE
CALC'ARCAL-CAR'I-O-AR-GIL-LA'CEOUS
CALC'AR-ATE, n. [L. calcar, a spur, calx; the heel; Ir. calg, a sting or goad.]
Furnished with a spur; as, a calcarate corol, in larkspur; a calcarate nectary, a nectary resembling a cock's spur. – Martyn.
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