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- English Word Coehorn Definition A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.
- English Word Coelacanth Definition Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.
- English Word Coelentera Definition Alt. of Coelenterata
- English Word Coelenterata Definition A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.
- English Word Coelenterate Definition Belonging to the Coelentera.
- English Word Coelenterate Definition One of the Coelentera.
- English Word Coelia Definition A cavity.
- English Word Coeliac Definition Alt. of Celiac
- English Word Coelodont Definition Having hollow teeth; -- said of a group lizards.
- English Word Coelodont Definition One of a group of lizards having hollow teeth.
- English Word Coelospermous Definition Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.
- English Word Coelum Definition See Body cavity, under Body.
- English Word Coemption Definition The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity.
- English Word Coendoo Definition The Brazilian porcupine (Cercolades, / Sphingurus, prehensiles), remarkable for its prehensile tail.
- English Word Coenenchym Definition Alt. of Coenenchyma
- English Word Coenenchyma Definition The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.
- English Word Coenesthesis Definition Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.
- English Word Coenobite Definition See Cenobite.
- English Word Coenoecium Definition The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.
- English Word Coenogamy Definition The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies.
- English Word Coenosarc Definition The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.
- English Word Coenurus Definition The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.
- English Word Coequal Definition Being on an equality in rank or power.
- English Word Coequal Definition One who is on an equality with another.
- English Word Coequality Definition The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
- English Word Coequally Definition With coequality.
- English Word Coerce Definition To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- English Word Coerce Definition To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.
- English Word Coerce Definition To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.
- English Word Coerced Definition of Coerce