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Cantharis
- - A beetle (Lytta vesicatoria, syn. Cantharis vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.
Carthorse
- noun - draft horse kept for pulling carts
Cockhorse
- noun - anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult)
Corchorus
- noun - any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute
- widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia
Crumhorns
- noun - a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)
Darkhorse
- unknown - A dark horse is a political candidate who is nominated unexpectedly, or any other underdog.
Dark Horse may also refer to:
* Dark Horse (astronomy), a large dark nebula
* Dark Horse, a solo album by George Harrison
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Death Row
- noun - the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution
Deathtrap
- noun - any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed
Decoherer
- - A device for restoring a coherer to its normal condition after it has been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.
Delthyris
- - A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer.