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  • English Word Cyanurate Definition A salt of cyanuric acid.
  • English Word Cyanuret Definition A cyanide.
  • English Word Cyanuric Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.
  • English Word Cyanuric acid Definition an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide.
  • English Word Cyathiform Definition In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.
  • English Word Cyatholith Definition A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch.
  • English Word Cyathophylloid Definition Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidae.
  • English Word Cyathophylloid Definition A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.
  • English Word Cycad Definition Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc.
  • English Word Cycadaceous Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.
  • English Word Cycas Definition A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.
  • English Word Cyclamen Definition A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.
  • English Word Cyclamin Definition A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum.
  • English Word Cyclas Definition A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.
  • English Word Cycle Definition An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
  • English Word Cycle Definition An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.
  • English Word Cycle Definition An age; a long period of time.
  • English Word Cycle Definition An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
  • English Word Cycle Definition The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.
  • English Word Cycle Definition One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
  • English Word Cycle Definition A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.
  • English Word Cycle Definition To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.
  • English Word Cycle Definition To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.
  • English Word Cycled Definition of Cycle
  • English Word Cyclic Definition Alt. of Cyclical
  • English Word Cyclical Definition Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
  • English Word Cyclide Definition A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.
  • English Word Cycling Definition of Cycle
  • English Word Cycling Definition The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.
  • English Word Cyclist Definition A cycler.