Nouns starting with C

• Chinese parasol tree — Noun – English ～ deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods
• Chinese angelica tree — Noun – English ～ similar to American angelica tree but less prickly; China
• Chinese pea tree — Noun – English ～ shrub with dark-green glossy foliage and solitary pale yellow flowers; northern China
• China tree — Noun – English ～ evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans
• chinaberry 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
• 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

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