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Casuarina
- noun - any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood
Casuarius
- noun - type and sole genus of the Casuaridae: cassowaries
Catarrhal
- adjective - of or relating to a catarrh; "catarrhal fever is any of several respiratory or oral diseases of livestock such as bluetongue in horses and sheep"
Catharism
- noun - a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition
Catharist
- - One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.
Catharses
- noun - (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
Catharsis
- noun - (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
Cathartes
- noun - type genus of the Cathartidae: turkey vultures
Cathartic
- adjective - a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
- emotionally purging
- emotionally purging (of e.g. art)
- providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions; causing catharsis.
- strongly laxative