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Coccoidea
- noun - scale insects and mealybugs
Coccolite
- - A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.
Coccolith
- - One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
Cocoonery
- - A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.
Cocooning
- verb - retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment; "Families cocoon around the T.V. set most evenings"; "She loves to stay at home and cocoon"
- retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape)
- wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection
Coelodont
- - Having hollow teeth; -- said of a group lizards. -- n. One of a group of lizards having hollow teeth.
Coelogyne
- noun - any of various orchids of the genus Coelogyne with: clusters of fragrant lacy snow-white flowers; salmon-pink solitary flowers; chainlike racemes of topaz and chocolate brown flowers; spikes of delicate white spice-scented flowers; emerald green flowers marked with blue-black
Coelostat
- noun - optical device used to follow the path of a celestial body and reflect its light into a telescope; has a movable and a fixed mirror
Coenobite
- noun - a member of a religious order living in common
Coenogamy
- - The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies.