Callimorpha jacobeae
— Noun
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~ large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
— Noun
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~ rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control
Charles James Fox
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~ English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806)
Captain James Cook
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~ English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
Calamity Jane
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~ United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
Cornelis Jansen
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~ a Dutch Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638)
Cornelius Jansenius
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~ a Dutch Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638)
Chaenomeles japonica
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~ deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms
Camellia japonica
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~ greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties
Cryptomeria japonica
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~ tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood
Coniogramme japonica
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~ fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds
Cercidiphyllum japonicum
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~ rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn
canopic jar
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~ a jar used in ancient Egypt to contain entrails of an embalmed body
cookie jar
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~ a jar in which cookies are kept (and sometimes money is hidden)
cooky jar
— Noun
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~ a jar in which cookies are kept (and sometimes money is hidden)
Chinook Jargon
— Noun
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~ a pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America
common jasmine
— Noun
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~ a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea
Carolina jasmine
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~ poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers
Chilean jasmine
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~ woody vine of Argentina grown as an ornamental for its glossy leaves and racemes of large fragrant funnel-shaped creamy-white flowers