Nouns starting with C

• coral root — Noun – English ～ a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor
• chicory root — Noun – English ～ root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee
• chicory root — Noun – English ～ the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute
• chocolate root — Noun – English ～ erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and a few nodding flowers with a brown-purple calyx and orange and pink petals
• celery root — Noun – English ～ grown for its thickened edible aromatic root
• celery root — Noun – English ～ thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant
• crinkle-root — Noun – English ～ North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots
• crinkle root — Noun – English ～ North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots
• crested coral root — Noun – English ～ orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins; southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States
• colic root — Noun – English ～ any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic
• Culver's root — Noun – English ～ a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America
• Culvers root — Noun – English ～ a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America
• cube root — Noun – English ～ a number that when multiplied three times equals a given number
• calf roping — Noun – English ～ capturing a calf with a lasso and binding its feet
• common rorqual — Noun – English ～ large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific
• cliff rose — Noun – English ～ tufted thrift of seacoasts and mountains of north temperate zone; occasionally grown as a ground cover
• Christmas rose — Noun – English ～ European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers
• Cherokee rose — Noun – English ～ Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossoms
• China rose — Noun – English ～ shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses
• China rose — Noun – English ～ large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers

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