Caryocaraceae
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~ small genus of tropical South American trees
Caryophyllaceae
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~ large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
Caryophyllales
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~ corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae
Caryophyllidae
— Noun
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~ a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder
caryopsis
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~ dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
casaba
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~ melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh
casablanca
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~ a port on the Atlantic and the largest city of Morocco
casals
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~ an outstanding Spanish cellist noted for his interpretation of Bach's cello suites (1876-1973)
Casanova
— Noun
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~ any man noted for his amorous adventures
Casanova
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~ an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)
casava
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~ any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
casbah
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~ an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located
cascabel
— Noun
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~ a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh
cascade
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~ a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"
cascade
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~ a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
cascade
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~ a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks"
cascades
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~ a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range
cascara
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~ dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative
cascara buckthorn
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~ shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada