Nouns starting with C

• Calliphora vicina — Noun – English ～ blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight
• Ciudad Victoria — Noun – English ～ a city in east central Mexico
• Council of Vienne — Noun – English ～ the council in 1311-1313 that dealt with alleged crimes of the Knights Templar, planned a new crusade, and took on the reformation of the clergy
• capital of Vietnam — Noun – English ～ the capital city of Vietnam; located in North Vietnam
• Charles VII — Noun – English ～ King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)
• Clement VII — Noun – English ～ Italian pope from 1523 to 1534 who broke with Henry VIII of England after Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn (1478-1534)
• Chrysopsis villosa — Noun – English ～ hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis
• chorionic villus — Noun – English ～ one of the tiny villi that stick out of the fetal chorion and combine with the mother's uterine tissue to form the placenta
• chorionic villus sampling — Noun – English ～ a prenatal test to detect birth defects at an early stage of pregnancy; tissue from the chorionic villi is assayed
• chorionic villus biopsy — Noun – English ～ a prenatal test to detect birth defects at an early stage of pregnancy; tissue from the chorionic villi is assayed
• coq au vin — Noun – English ～ chicken and onions and mushrooms braised in red wine and seasonings
• cypress vine — Noun – English ～ tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves; naturalized in United States and elsewhere
• common matrimony vine — Noun – English ～ deciduous erect or spreading shrub with spiny branches and violet-purple flowers followed by orange-red berries; southeastern Europe to China
• common grape vine — Noun – English ～ common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes
• climbing hemp-vine — Noun – English ～ herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up trees
• coral vine — Noun – English ～ prostrate or twining woody vine with small leathery leaves and umbels of red flowers; Australia and Tasmania
• chalice vine — Noun – English ～ Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat
• China fleece vine — Noun – English ～ twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers; western China to Russia
• calabar-bean vine — Noun – English ～ tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans
• cinnamon vine — Noun – English ～ hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers

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