Nouns starting with C

• Cote d’Ivoire — Noun – Danish ～ landet set som dets befolkning
• common ivy — Noun – English ～ Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits
• Charles IX — Noun – English ～ King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
• cheap-jack — Noun – English ～ a seller of shoddy goods
• crevalle jack — Noun – English ～ fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
• cork jacket — Noun – English ～ life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design
• Callimorpha jacobeae — Noun – English ～ large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — Noun – English ～ rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control
• Charles James Fox — Noun – English ～ English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806)
• Captain James Cook — Noun – English ～ English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
• Calamity Jane — Noun – English ～ United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
• Cornelis Jansen — Noun – English ～ a Dutch Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638)
• Cornelius Jansenius — Noun – English ～ a Dutch Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638)
• Chaenomeles japonica — Noun – English ～ deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms
• Camellia japonica — Noun – English ～ greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties
• Cryptomeria japonica — Noun – English ～ tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood
• Coniogramme japonica — Noun – English ～ fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds
• Cercidiphyllum japonicum — Noun – English ～ rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn
• canopic jar — Noun – English ～ a jar used in ancient Egypt to contain entrails of an embalmed body
• cookie jar — Noun – English ～ a jar in which cookies are kept (and sometimes money is hidden)

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