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Calibre
- noun - a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
Caliche
- noun - crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
- nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru
Calicle
- - One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian.
Calipee
- - A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy.
Callose
- - Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
Calorie
- noun - a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food
- a unit of heat, equal to 4.1868 joules (International Table calorie): formerly defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C under standard conditions.
- unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure
Calotte
- unknown - Skull cap worn by Catholic priests
Calycle
- noun - a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus
- a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp)
CALZONE
- unknown - A baked or fried turnover of pizza dough stuffed with various fillings usually including cheese.
- A type of pizza that has been 'folded over'