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Cinco De Mayo
- noun - the fifth of May which is observed in Mexico and Mexican-American communities in the United States to commemorate the Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862
Cinema Verite
- noun - a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director
Cinematograph
- - an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
Cinnabar Moth
- noun - large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
Cinnamon Bark
- noun - aromatic bark of Saigon cinnamon used medicinally as a carminative
- aromatic bark used as a spice
Cinnamon Bear
- noun - reddish-brown color phase of the American black bear
Cinnamon Fern
- noun - New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
Cinnamon Roll
- noun - rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar (and raisins) then sliced before baking
Cinnamon Vine
- noun - hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers
Cinquecentist
- - An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist.