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Cycadales
- noun - primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms
Cycnoches
- noun - genus of epiphytic or terrestrial tropical American orchids
Cylinders
- noun - a chamber within which piston moves
- a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air
- a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)
- a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line
Cynancums
- noun - any of various mostly giant tropical lianas of Africa and Madagascar having greenish or purple flowers and long smooth pods; roots formerly used as an emetic
Cynicisms
- noun - a cynical feeling of distrust
Cynodonts
- noun - small carnivorous reptiles
Cynosures
- noun - something that provides guidance (as Polaris guides mariners); "let faith be your cynosure to walk by"
- something that strongly attracts attention and admiration; "if he was the cynosure of all eyes he didn't notice"
Cypresses
- noun - any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
- wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
Cyprinids
- noun - soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
Cysteines
- noun - an amino acid containing sulfur that is found in most proteins; oxidizes on exposure to air to form cystine