Nouns starting with C

• compass plane — Noun – English ～ a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces
• complex plane — Noun – English ～ a geometric representation of the complex numbers established by the real axis and the orthogonal imaginary axis; it can be thought of as a modified Cartesian plane, with the real part of a complex number represented by a displacement along the x-axis, and the imaginary part by a displacement along the y-axis
• city planning — Noun – English ～ determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community
• chard plant — Noun – English ～ beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
• castor bean plant — Noun – English ～ large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout the tropics
• cast-iron plant — Noun – English ～ evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
• castor-oil plant — Noun – English ～ large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout the tropics
• common bean plant — Noun – English ～ the common annual twining or bushy bean plant grown for its edible seeds or pods
• common pitcher plant — Noun – English ～ perennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland
• caryophyllaceous plant — Noun – English ～ a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae
• carnivorous plant — Noun – English ～ plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals
• Christ plant — Noun – English ～ somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
• cormous plant — Noun – English ～ plant growing from a corm
• coriander plant — Noun – English ～ Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley
• caricature plant — Noun – English ～ tropical Old World shrub having purple or red tubular flowers and leaf markings resembling the profile of a human face
• chicory plant — Noun – English ～ perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads
• chickpea plant — Noun – English ～ Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds
• chemical plant — Noun – English ～ an industrial plant where chemicals are produced
• Chinese lantern plant — Noun – English ～ Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
• chimney plant — Noun – English ～ bellflower of southeastern Europe

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