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Calamist
- - One who plays upon a reed or pipe.
Calamite
- - A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.
Calamity
- noun - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
Calories
- noun - a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food
- a unit of heat, equal to 4.1868 joules (International Table calorie): formerly defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C under standard conditions.
- unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure
Calycine
- adjective - of or relating to or resembling a calyx
Cambrian
- adjective - a native or resident of Wales
- from 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebrates
- of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language; "the Welsh coast"; "Welsh syntax"
Cambrics
- noun - a finely woven white linen
Camelina
- noun - annual and biennial herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia
Camomile
- noun - Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis