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  • English Word Coltish Definition Like a colt; wanton; frisky.
  • English Word Coltsfoot Definition A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.
  • English Word Coluber Definition A genus of harmless serpents.
  • English Word Colubrine Definition like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.
  • English Word Colubrine Definition Like a snake; cunning; crafty.
  • English Word Colugo Definition A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.
  • English Word Columba Definition See Calumba.
  • English Word Columbae Definition An order of birds, including the pigeons.
  • English Word Columbaria Definition of Columbarium
  • English Word Columbaries Definition of Columbary
  • English Word Columbarium Definition A dovecote or pigeon house.
  • English Word Columbarium Definition A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
  • English Word Columbary Definition A dovecote; a pigeon house.
  • English Word Columbate Definition A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium.
  • English Word Columbatz fly Definition See Buffalo fly, under Buffalo.
  • English Word Columbella Definition A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.
  • English Word Columbia Definition America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer.
  • English Word Columbiad Definition A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.
  • English Word Columbian Definition Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.
  • English Word Columbic Definition Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic.
  • English Word Columbic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.
  • English Word Columbier Definition See Colombier.
  • English Word Columbiferous Definition Producing or containing columbium.
  • English Word Columbin Definition A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin.
  • English Word Columbine Definition Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.
  • English Word Columbine Definition A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America.
  • English Word Columbine Definition The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes.
  • English Word Columbite Definition A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.
  • English Word Columbium Definition A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.
  • English Word Columbo Definition See Calumba.