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1: someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) [syn: {moocher}, {scrounger}]

1: an ancient port city in southwestern Spain

1: a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores [syn: {Cd}, {atomic number 48}]

1: a standard voltaic cell (trademark Weston) [syn: {Weston cell}]

1: orange-hued cadmium yellow pigment

1: a yellow sulfide used chiefly as a pigment

1: ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form [syn: {greenockite}]

1: pigment of cadmium sulfide and barium sulfate varying in hue from lemon yellow to orange

1: pale-hued cadmium yellow pigment

1: a genus of Pyralidae [syn: {genus Cadra}]

1: moth whose larvae feed on and mat together with webbing various stored foods [syn: {almond moth}, {fig moth}]

1: moth whose larvae attack dried fruits and cereal products [syn: {raisin moth}]

1: a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement [syn: {cell}] 2: a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion

1: of or relating to a caduceus

{caduceus}

1: an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes [also: {caducei} (pl)]

1: shed at an early stage of development; "most amphibians have caducous gills"; "the caducous calyx of a poppy" [syn: {shed}] [ant: {persistent}]

{caecum}

1: of or like a cecum [syn: {cecal}]

1: coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians [syn: {Caeciliidae}, {family Caeciliidae}, {family Caeciliadae}]

1: of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae n : any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions [syn: {...

1: coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians [syn: {family Caeciliidae}, {Caeciliadae}, {family Caeciliadae}]

1: the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum" [syn: {cecum}, {blind gut}] [also: {caeca} (pl)]

1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Columba and Eridanus

1: introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) [s...

1: type genus of the family Caenolestidae [syn: {genus Caenolestes}]

1: small marsupials of southern South America [syn: {family Caenolestidae}]

1: small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana [syn: {genus Caesalpinia}]

1: tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries [syn: {bonduc}, {bonduc tree}, {Caesalpinia bonducella}]

1: tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries [syn: {bonduc}, {bonduc tree}, {Caesalpinia bonduc}]

1: small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin [syn: {divi-divi}]

1: spreading thorny shrub of tropical Asia bearing large erect racemes of red-marked yellow flowers [syn: {Mysore thorn}, {Caesalpinia sepiaria}]

1: tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry [syn: {brazilwood}, {peachwood}, {peach-wood}, {pernambuco wood}]

1: thornless tree yielding heavy wood [syn: {brazilian ironwood}]

1: a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana [syn: {bird of paradise}, {poinciana}, {Poinciana gilliesii}]

1: tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana [syn: {pride of barbados}, {paradise flower}, {flamboyant tree}, {Poinciana pulcherrima}]

1: spreading thorny shrub of tropical Asia bearing large erect racemes of red-marked yellow flowers [syn: {Mysore thorn}, {Caesalpinia decapetala}]

1: spiny trees, shrubs, or perennial herbs, including the genera Caesalpinia, Cassia, Ceratonia, Bauhinia; commonly included in the family Leguminosae [syn: {family Caesalpiniaceae}]

1: alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae [syn: {subfamily Caesalpinioideae}]

1: conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC) [syn: {Julius Caesar}, {Gaius Julius Caesar}] 2: United States comedian who pioneered comdey television shows (born 1922) [syn: {Sid Caesar}, {Sidn...

1: typically having fried croutons and dressing made with a raw egg

1: widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric [syn: {royal agaric}, {Amanita caesarea}]

1: an ancient seaport in northwestern Israel; an important Roman city in ancient Palestine

1: relating to abdominal delivery [syn: {cesarean}, {cesarian}, {caesarian}] 2: of or relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar [syn: {Caesarian}] n : the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision ...

1: the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) [syn: {cesarean delivery}, {cesarean section}, {cesarian se...

1: the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) [syn: {cesarean delivery}, {caesarean delivery}, {cesarean ...

1: relating to abdominal delivery [syn: {cesarean}, {cesarian}, {caesarean}] 2: of or relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar [syn: {Caesarean}]

1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: {dictatorship}, {absolutism}, {authoritarianism}, {despotism}, {m...

1: the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters [syn: {Erastianism}, {Byzantinism}]

1: a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal [syn: {cesium}, {Cs}, {atomic number 55}]

1: an atomic clock based on the energy difference between two states of the caesium nucleus in a magnetic field

1: (of plants) growing in dense clumps or tufts [syn: {cespitose}, {tufted}]

1: a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued" 2: a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line [also: {caesurae} (pl)]

{caesura}

1: of or relating to a caesura

1: a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold [syn: {coffeehouse}, {coffee shop}, {coffee bar}]

1: equal parts of coffee and hot milk

1: small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream [syn: {demitasse}]

1: black coffee with cognac and lemon peel and sugar [syn: {coffee royal}]

1: a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier