CPage 26
- English Word Calx Definition The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.
- English Word Calx Definition Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.
- English Word Calxes Definition of Calx
- English Word Calyces Definition of Calyx
- English Word Calycifloral Definition Alt. of callyciflorous
- English Word Calyciform Definition Having the form or appearance of a calyx.
- English Word Calycinal Definition Alt. of Calycine
- English Word Calycine Definition Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx.
- English Word Calycle Definition A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.
- English Word Calycled Definition Calyculate.
- English Word Calycozoa Definition A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.
- English Word Calycular Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.
- English Word Calyculate Definition Alt. of Calyculated
- English Word Calyculated Definition Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.
- English Word Calymene Definition A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age.
- English Word Calyon Definition Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
- English Word Calypso Definition A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N.
- English Word Calyptra Definition A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.
- English Word Calyptriform Definition Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher.
- English Word Calyx Definition The covering of a flower. See Flower.
- English Word Calyx Definition A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.
- English Word Calyxes Definition of Calyx
- English Word Calyxes Definition of Nematocalyx
- English Word Calzoons Definition Drawers.
- English Word Cam Definition A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
- English Word Cam Definition A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
- English Word Cam Definition A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.
- English Word Cam Definition A ridge or mound of earth.
- English Word Cam Definition Crooked.
- English Word Camaieu Definition A cameo.