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- English Word Coccolith Definition One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
- English Word Coccosphere Definition A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.
- English Word Coccosteus Definition An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.
- English Word Cocculus Indicus Definition The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.
- English Word Coccus Definition One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
- English Word Coccus Definition A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
- English Word Coccus Definition A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.
- English Word Coccygeal Definition Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebrae.
- English Word Coccygeous Definition Coccygeal.
- English Word Coccyges Definition of Coccyx
- English Word Coccyx Definition The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated.
- English Word Cochin fowl Definition A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam).
- English Word Cochineal Definition A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.
- English Word Cochineal fig Definition A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
- English Word Cochlea Definition An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.
- English Word Cochlear Definition Of or pertaining to the cochlea.
- English Word Cochleare Definition A spoon.
- English Word Cochleare Definition A spoonful.
- English Word Cochleary Definition Same as Cochleate.
- English Word Cochleate Definition Alt. of Cochleated
- English Word Cochleated Definition Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.
- English Word Cock Definition The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
- English Word Cock Definition A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- English Word Cock Definition A chief man; a leader or master.
- English Word Cock Definition The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- English Word Cock Definition A faucet or valve.
- English Word Cock Definition The style of gnomon of a dial.
- English Word Cock Definition The indicator of a balance.
- English Word Cock Definition The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- English Word Cock Definition To set erect; to turn up.