Words starting with C

• Chinese scholar tree — Noun – English ～ handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan
• Chinese lacquer tree — Noun – English ～ small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained
• China tree — Noun – English ～ tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
• ceiba tree — Noun – English ～ massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber
• cedar tree — Noun – English ～ any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars
• cedar tree — Noun – English ～ any cedar of the genus Cedrus
• cembra nut tree — Noun – English ～ large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate
• California tree poppy — Noun – English ～ tall branching subshrub of California and Mexico often cultivated for its silvery-blue foliage and large fragrant white flowers
• calabash tree — Noun – English ～ tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
• calabur tree — Noun – English ～ a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves
• California bay tree — Noun – English ～ Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
• cinchona tree — Noun – English ～ small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
• citrange tree — Noun – English ～ more aromatic and acidic than oranges
• citrus tree — Noun – English ～ any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds
• citron tree — Noun – English ～ thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind
• caoutchouc tree — Noun – English ～ deciduous tree of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers having leathery leaves and fragrant yellow-white flowers; it yields a milky juice that is the chief source of commercial rubber
• caper tree — Noun – English ～ shrub or small tree of southern Florida to Central and South America
• caper tree — Noun – English ～ shrub of southern Florida to West Indies
• cabbage-bark tree — Noun – English ～ tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic
• cabbage tree — Noun – English ～ Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

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