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Calomels
- noun - a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic
Caloocan
- noun - a suburb of Manila in southwestern Luzon
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
Calosoma
- noun - any beetle of the genus Calosoma
Calotype
- - A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.
Calpacks
- noun - a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus
Caltrops
- noun - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
- an old military weapon consisting of an iron ball with four spikes so arranged that when it is laid upon the ground one spike always stands upright. Used particularly against cavalry.
- Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
- tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
Calumbin
- - A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.
Calumets
- noun - a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians; smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace)
Calvados
- noun - dry apple brandy made in Normandy