wapiennych

Wapiennych is the genitive plural form of the Polish adjective wapienny, which means calcareous or related to limestone. The form is used to describe nouns in contexts where the noun is in the genitive plural, such as layers, rocks, or minerals.

In geology and related fields, wapiennych commonly appears in phrases referring to calcareous substances or limestone-derived materials. For example, layers of calcareous rocks are described as warstwy skał wapiennych, and deposits or analyses related to calcareous minerals may be described with the adjective in its genitive plural form, such as zawartość minerałów wapiennych. The term helps distinguish calcareous materials from non-calcareous counterparts in descriptions, maps, and scientific reports.

Etymologically, wapienny derives from wapno, meaning lime, and is used in modern Polish to denote substances formed from calcium carbonate or containing a significant amount of it. The adjective has various gender and number forms in Polish to align with the nouns they modify; wapiennych specifically marks masculine personal, mixed, or all-gender nouns in the genitive plural.

Outside scientific use, the form may appear in historical, environmental, or educational texts when describing calcareous soils, shells, or fossils associated with limestone environments. As a grammatical form, wapiennych functions mostly as a descriptive modifier within Polish syntax, contributing to precise characterization of geological and paleontological materials.