Cakile
1: small genus of succulent annual herbs found on sandy shores of North America and Europe [syn: {genus Cakile}]
Cakile maritima
1: salt-tolerant seashore annual grown for its fragrant rose or violet flowers and fleshy gray-green foliage [syn: {sea-rocket}]
calaba
1: West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice [syn: {Santa Maria tree}, {Calophyllum calaba}]
calabar bean
1: dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft [syn: {ordeal bean}]
calabar-bean vine
1: tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans [syn: {Physostigma venenosum}]
calabash
1: round gourd of the calabash tree 2: tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [syn: {calabash tree}, {Crescentia cujete}] 3: Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-sha...
calabash pipe
1: a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd [syn: {calabash}]
calabash tree
1: tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [syn: {calabash}, {Crescentia cujete}]
calabazilla
1: perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit [syn: {prairie gourd}, {prairie gourd vine}, {Missouri gourd}, {wild ...
Calabria
1: a region of southern Italy (forming the toe of the Italian `boot')
calabur tree
1: a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves [syn: {Jamaican cherry}, {ca...
calabura
1: a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves [syn: {Jamaican cherry}, {ca...
caladenia
1: any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia
Caladenia cairnsiana
1: orchid with red-tinged linear leaves and panicle of purple-marked pale-yellow flowers with deep red or purple lip; southwestern Australia [syn: {zebra orchid}]
caladium
1: any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red
Caladium bicolor
1: most popular caladium; cultivated in many varieties since the late 19th century
Calais
1: a town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England; in 1347 it was captured by the English king Edward III after a long siege and remained in English hands unti...
calamari
1: (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food [syn: {squid}, {calamary}]
calamary
1: (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food [syn: {squid}, {calamari}]
calamine
1: a white mineral; a common ore of zinc [syn: {hemimorphite}]
calamine lotion
1: a lotion consisting of a liquid preparation containing calamine; used to treat itching or mild skin irritations
calamint
1: perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America
Calamintha grandiflora
1: aromatic herb with large pink flowers; southern and southeastern Europe; Anatolia; northern Iran [syn: {large-flowered calamint}, {Clinopodium grandiflorum}, {Satureja grandiflora}]
Calamintha nepeta
1: low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to GB naturalized in United States [syn: {lesser calamint}, {field balm}, {Calamintha nepeta glantulosa}, {Satureja nepeta}, {Saturej...
Calamintha nepeta glantulosa
1: low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to GB naturalized in United States [syn: {lesser calamint}, {field balm}, {Calamintha nepeta}, {Satureja nepeta}, {Satureja calaminth...
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Calamintha sylvatica
1: mint-scented perennial of central and southern Europe [syn: {common calamint}, {Satureja calamintha officinalis}]
calamitous
1: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous cam...
calamity
1: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: {catastrophe}, {disaster}, {tragedy}, {cataclysm}]
Calamity Jane
1: United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903) [syn: {Burk}, {Martha Jane Burk}, {Burke}, {Martha Jane Burke}]
calamus
1: any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes 2: the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally 3: perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves...
Calamus australis
1: tall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia [syn: {lawyer cane}]
calamus oil
1: carcinogenic oil from calamus root used as a perfume
Calamus penna
1: from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil [syn: {sheepshead porgy}]
Calamus rotang
1: climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes [syn: {rattan}, {rattan palm}]
Calan
1: a drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine [syn: {verapamil}, {Isoptin}]
calando
1: gradually decreasing in tempo and volume
Calandrinia
1: large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers [syn: {genus Calandrinia}]
Calandrinia ciliata
1: succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States [syn: {red maids}, {redmaids}]
calanthe
1: any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise
Calapooya
1: a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon [syn: {Kalapooia}, {Kalapuya}, {Calapuya}]
Calapuya
1: a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon [syn: {Kalapooia}, {Kalapuya}, {Calapooya}]
calash
1: a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century [syn: {caleche}] 2: the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage [syn: {caleche}, {calash top}]
calash top
1: the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage [syn: {calash}, {caleche}]
calathian violet
1: perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths [syn: {marsh gentian}, {Gentiana pneumonanthe}]
calc-tufa
1: a soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime [syn: {tufa}]
calcaneal
1: relating to the heel bone or heel
calcaneus
1: the largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel [syn: {heelbone}, {os tarsi fibulare}]
calcareous
1: composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk [syn: {chalky}]
calcarine fissure
1: a sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum [syn: {calcarine sulcus}]
calcarine sulcus
1: a sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum [syn: {calcarine fissure}]
calced
1: used of certain religious orders who wear shoes [syn: {shod}] [ant: {discalced}]
calcedony
1: a milky or grayish translucent to transparent quartz [syn: {chalcedony}]
calceiform
1: slipper-shaped; "the calceiform lip of certain orchids" [syn: {calceolate}]
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