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Celtium
- - The first proposed name for a supposed new element of the rare-earth group, accompanying lutecium and scandium in the gadolinite earths. It is now considered identical to Lutetium. The proposed symbol was Ct (no period), but this name and symbol are no longer used.
Celtuce
- noun - leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked
- lettuce valued especially for its edible stems
Chlamys
- noun - a short mantle or cape fastened at the shoulder; worn by men in ancient Greece
- collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils
Chloral
- - A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.
Chloric
- - Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.
Chloris
- noun - tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners: finger grass; windmill grass
Chloro-
- - A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named.
Ciliary
- adjective - of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell
- of or relating to the human eyelash
- relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye
Ciliata
- noun - class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle
Ciliate
- adjective - a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell
- having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections
- of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell
- of or relating to the human eyelash