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   Cakchiquel
         n 1: a member of the Mayan people living in south central
               Guatemala
         2: the Mayan language spoken by the Cakchiquel

English Dictionary: Chiococca alba by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cassius Clay
n
  1. United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
    Synonym(s): Ali, Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay, Cassius Marcellus Clay
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cassius Longinus
n
  1. prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (died in 42 BC)
    Synonym(s): Cassius, Cassius Longinus, Gaius Cassius Longinus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cause celebre
n
  1. an incident that attracts great public attention
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cheesecloth
n
  1. a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Chiococca alba
n
  1. evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries
    Synonym(s): blolly, West Indian snowberry, Chiococca alba
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
choke coil
n
  1. a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
    Synonym(s): choke, choke coil, choking coil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Coca Cola
n
  1. Coca Cola is a trademarked cola
    Synonym(s): Coca Cola, Coke
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coccygeal
adj
  1. of or relating to or near the coccyx
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coccygeal nerve
n
  1. the lowest pair of spinal nerves [syn: coccygeal nerve, nervus coccygeus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coccygeal plexus
n
  1. a small plexus formed by the fifth sacral and coccygeal nerves
    Synonym(s): coccygeal plexus, plexus coccygeus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coccygeal vertebra
n
  1. one of 4 vertebrae in the human coccyx [syn: {coccygeal vertebra}, caudal vertebra]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cocozelle
n
  1. squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow
    Synonym(s): cocozelle, Italian vegetable marrow
  2. squash resembling zucchini
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cow cockle
n
  1. European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort
    Synonym(s): cowherb, cow cockle, Vaccaria hispanica, Vaccaria pyramidata, Saponaria vaccaria
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cuckoo clock
n
  1. clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Czechoslovak
n
  1. a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia
    Synonym(s): Czechoslovakian, Czechoslovak, Czech
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Czechoslovakia
n
  1. a former republic in central Europe; divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Czechoslovakian
adj
  1. of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language; "The Czech border"; "Czechoslovak nationalists"; "The Czechoslovakian population"
    Synonym(s): Czech, Czechoslovakian
n
  1. a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia
    Synonym(s): Czechoslovakian, Czechoslovak, Czech
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cash \Cash\, n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See {Case}
      a box.]
      A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and
      paid out; a money box. [Obs.]
  
               This bank is properly a general cash, where every man
               lodges his money.                                    --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
               [9c]20,000 are known to be in her cash.   --Sir R.
                                                                              Winwood.
  
      2. (Com.)
            (a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also
                  applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper
                  easily convertible into money.
            (b) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to
                  sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for
                  cash.
  
      {Cash account} (Bookkeeping), an account of money received,
            disbursed, and on hand.
  
      {Cash boy}, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries
            the money received by the salesman from customers to a
            cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.]
  
      {Cash credit}, an account with a bank by which a person or
            house, having given security for repayment, draws at
            pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed
            upon; -- called also {bank credit} and {cash account}.
  
      {Cash sales}, sales made for ready, money, in distinction
            from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be
            delivered on the day of transaction.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cheese cloth \Cheese" cloth`\
      A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing
      cheese curds.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kermes \Ker"mes\, n. [Ar. & Per. girmiz. See {Crimson}, and cf.
      {Alkermes}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) The dried bodies of the females of a scale
            insect ({Coccus ilicis}), allied to the cochineal insect,
            and found on several species of oak near the
            Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea,
            contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used
            in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a
            vegetable nature, and were used in medicine. [Written also
            {chermes}.]
  
      2. (Bot.) A small European evergreen oak ({Quercus
            coccifera}) on which the kermes insect ({Coccus ilicis})
            feeds. --J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
  
      {Kermes mineral}.
            (a) (Old Chem.) An artificial amorphous trisulphide of
                  antimony; -- so called on account of its red color.
            (b) (Med. Chem.) A compound of the trioxide and
                  trisulphide of antimony, used in medicine. This
                  substance occurs in nature as the mineral kermesite.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lac \Lac\, n. [Per. lak; akin to Skr. l[be]ksh[be]: cf. F.
      lague, It. & NL. lacca. Cf. {Lake} a color, {Lacquer},
      {Litmus}.]
      A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but
      to some extent on other trees, by the {Coccus lacca}

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coccygeal \Coc*cyg"e*al\, a. (Anat.)
      Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal
      vertebr[91].
  
      {Coccygeal glands} (Zo[94]l.), glands situated at the base of
            the tail of birds. They secrete the oil with which the
            plumage is dressed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coccygeal \Coc*cyg"e*al\, a. (Anat.)
      Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal
      vertebr[91].
  
      {Coccygeal glands} (Zo[94]l.), glands situated at the base of
            the tail of birds. They secrete the oil with which the
            plumage is dressed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cocoa \Co"coa\, n. [Corrupted fr. cacao.]
      A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and
      used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa
      or cocoa shells.
  
      {Cocoa shells}, the husks which separate from the cacao seeds
            in preparing them for use.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cossic \Cos"sic\ (k?s"s?k), Cossical \Cos"sic*al\ (-s?-kal), a.
      [It. cossico. See 2d {Coss}.]
      Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic
      art. [Obs.] [bd]Art of numbers cossical.[b8] --Digges (1579).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cuckoo \Cuck"oo\ (k??k"??), n. [OE. coccou, cukkow, F. coucou,
      prob. of imitative origin; cf. L. cuculus, Gr. [?][?][?][?],
      Skr. k[?]ki[?]a, G. kuckuk, D. koekoek.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A bird belonging to {Cuculus}, {Coccyzus}, and several allied
      genera, of many species.
  
      Note: The European cuckoo ({Cuculus canorus}) builds no nest
               of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other
               birds, to be hatched by them. The American
               yellow-billed cuckoo ({Coccyzus Americanus}) and the
               black-billed cuckoo ({C. erythrophthalmus}) build their
               own nests.
  
      {Cuckoo bee} (Zool.), a bee, parasitic in the larval stage in
            the nests of other bees, feeding either upon their food or
            larvae. They belong to the genera {Nomada}, {Melecta},
            {Epeolus}, and others.
  
      {Cuckoo clock}, a clock so constructed that at the time for
            striking it gives forth sounds resembling the cry of the
            cuckoo.
  
      {Cuckoo dove} (Zo[94]l.), a long-tailed pigeon of the genus
            {Macropygia}. Many species inhabit the East Indies.
  
      {Cuckoo fish} (Zo[94]l.), the European red gurnard ({Trigla
            cuculus}). The name probably alludes to the sound that it
            utters.
  
      {Cuckoo falcon} (Zo[94]l.), any falcon of the genus {Baza}.
            The genus inhabits Africa and the East Indies.
  
      {Cuckoo maid} (Zo[94]l.), the wryneck; -- called also {cuckoo
            mate}.
  
      {Cuckoo ray} (Zo[94]l.), a British ray ({Raia miraletus}).
  
      {Cuckoo spit}, [or] {Cuckoo spittle}.
      (a) A frothy secretion found upon plants, exuded by the
            larvae of certain insects, for concealment; -- called
            also {toad spittle} and {frog spit}.
      (b) (Zo[94]l.) A small hemipterous insect, the larva of
            which, living on grass and the leaves of plants, exudes
            this secretion. The insects belong to {Aphrophora},
            {Helochara}, and allied genera.
  
      {Ground cuckoo}, the chaparral cock.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cuscus oil \Cuscus oil\
      Same as {Vetiver oil}.

From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]:
   Cocos (keeling) Islands
  
   (territory of Australia)
  
   Cocos (keeling) Islands:Geography
  
   Location: Southeastern Asia, group of islands in the Indian Ocean,
   south of Indonesia, about one-half of the way from Australia to Sri
   Lanka
  
   Map references: Southeast Asia
  
   Area:
   total area: 14 sq km
   land area: 14 sq km
   comparative area: about 24 times the size of The Mall in Washington,
   DC
   note: includes the two main islands of West Island and Home Island
  
   Land boundaries: 0 km
  
   Coastline: 2.6 km
  
   Maritime claims:
   exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
   territorial sea: 3 nm
  
   International disputes: none
  
   Climate: pleasant, modified by the southeast trade wind for about nine
   months of the year; moderate rain fall
  
   Terrain: flat, low-lying coral atolls
  
   Natural resources: fish
  
   Land use:
   arable land: NA%
   permanent crops: NA%
   meadows and pastures: NA%
   forest and woodland: NA%
   other: NA%
  
   Irrigated land: NA sq km
  
   Environment:
   current issues: there are no natural fresh water resources on the
   island, groundwater does accumulate in natural underground reservoirs
   natural hazards: cyclones may occur in the early months of the year
   international agreements: NA
  
   Note: two coral atolls thickly covered with coconut palms and other
   vegetation
  
   Cocos (keeling) Islands:People
  
   Population: 604 (July 1995 est.)
  
   Age structure:
   0-14 years: NA
   15-64 years: NA
   65 years and over: NA
  
   Population growth rate: 0.98% (1995 est.)
  
   Birth rate: NA births/1,000 population
  
   Death rate: NA deaths/1,000 population
  
   Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population
  
   Infant mortality rate: NA deaths/1,000 live births
  
   Life expectancy at birth:
   total population: NA years
   male: NA years
   female: NA years
  
   Total fertility rate: NA children born/woman
  
   Nationality:
   noun: Cocos Islander(s)
   adjective: Cocos Islander
  
   Ethnic divisions:
   West Island: Europeans
   Home Island: Cocos Malays
  
   Religions: Sunni Muslims
  
   Languages: English
  
   Labor force: NA
  
   Cocos (keeling) Islands:Government
  
   Names:
   conventional long form: Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands
   conventional short form: Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  
   Digraph: CK
  
   Type: territory of Australia
  
   Capital: West Island
  
   Administrative divisions: none (territory of Australia)
  
   Independence: none (territory of Australia)
  
   National holiday: NA
  
   Constitution: Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act of 1955
  
   Legal system: based upon the laws of Australia and local laws
  
   Suffrage: NA
  
   Executive branch:
   chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952)
   head of government: Administrator B. CUNNINGHAM (since NA)
   cabinet: Islands Council; Chairman of the Islands Council Haji WAHIN
   bin Bynie (since NA)
  
   Legislative branch: unicameral Islands Council
  
   Judicial branch: Supreme Court
  
   Political parties and leaders: NA
  
   Member of: none
  
   Diplomatic representation in US: none (territory of Australia)
  
   US diplomatic representation: none (territory of Australia)
  
   Flag: the flag of Australia is used
  
   Economy
  
   Overview: Grown throughout the islands, coconuts are the sole cash
   crop. Copra and fresh coconuts are the major export earners. Small
   local gardens and fishing contribute to the food supply, but
   additional food and most other necessities must be imported from
   Australia.
  
   National product: GDP $NA
  
   National product real growth rate: NA%
  
   National product per capita: $NA
  
   Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
  
   Budget:
   revenues: $NA
   expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
  
   Exports: $NA
   commodities: copra
   partners: Australia
  
   Imports: $NA
   commodities: foodstuffs
   partners: Australia
  
   External debt: $NA
  
   Industrial production: growth rate NA%
  
   Electricity:
   capacity: 1,000 kW
   production: 2 million kWh
   consumption per capita: 2,980 kWh (1990)
  
   Industries: copra products
  
   Agriculture: gardens provide vegetables, bananas, pawpaws, coconuts
  
   Economic aid: none
  
   Currency: 1 Australian dollar ($A) = 100 cents
  
   Exchange rates: Australian dollars ($A) per US$1 - 1.3058 (January
   1995), 1.3667 (1994), 1.4704 (1993), 1.3600 (1992), 1.2836 (1991),
   1.2799 (1990)
  
   Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
  
   Cocos (keeling) Islands:Transportation
  
   Railroads: 0 km
  
   Highways:
   total: NA km
   paved: NA km
   unpaved: NA km
  
   Ports: none; lagoon anchorage only
  
   Merchant marine: none
  
   Airports:
   total: 1
   with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
  
   Cocos (keeling) Islands:Communications
  
   Telephone system: NA telephones
   local: NA
   intercity: NA
   international: linked by telephone, telex, and facsimile
   communications via satellite with Australia
  
   Radio:
   broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0
   radios: 250 (1985)
  
   Television:
   broadcast stations: 0
   televisions: NA
  
   Cocos (keeling) Islands:Defense Forces
  
   Note: defense is the responsibility of Australia
  
  
  

From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]:
   Cook Islands
  
   (free association with New Zealand)
  
   Cook Islands:Geography
  
   Location: Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about
   one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand
  
   Map references: Oceania
  
   Area:
   total area: 240 sq km
   land area: 240 sq km
   comparative area: slightly less than 1.3 times the size of Washington,
   DC
  
   Land boundaries: 0 km
  
   Coastline: 120 km
  
   Maritime claims:
   continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
   exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
   territorial sea: 12 nm
  
   International disputes: none
  
   Climate: tropical; moderated by trade winds
  
   Terrain: low coral atolls in north; volcanic, hilly islands in south
  
   Natural resources: negligible
  
   Land use:
   arable land: 4%
   permanent crops: 22%
   meadows and pastures: 0%
   forest and woodland: 0%
   other: 74%
  
   Irrigated land: NA sq km
  
   Environment:
   current issues: NA
   natural hazards: typhoons (November to March)
   international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change;
   signed, but not ratified - Law of the Sea
  
   Cook Islands:People
  
   Population: 19,343 (July 1995 est.)
  
   Age structure:
   0-14 years: NA
   15-64 years: NA
   65 years and over: NA
  
   Population growth rate: 1.13% (1995 est.)
  
   Birth rate: 23.05 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
  
   Death rate: 5.2 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
  
   Net migration rate: -6.53 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
  
   Infant mortality rate: 24.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
  
   Life expectancy at birth:
   total population: 71.14 years
   male: 69.2 years
   female: 73.1 years (1995 est.)
  
   Total fertility rate: 3.27 children born/woman (1995 est.)
  
   Nationality:
   noun: Cook Islander(s)
   adjective: Cook Islander
  
   Ethnic divisions: Polynesian (full blood) 81.3%, Polynesian and
   European 7.7%, Polynesian and other 7.7%, European 2.4%, other 0.9%
  
   Religions: Christian (majority of populace members of Cook Islands
   Christian Church)
  
   Languages: English (official), Maori
  
   Literacy: NA%
  
   Labor force: 5,810
   by occupation: agriculture 29%, government 27%, services 25%, industry
   15%, other 4% (1981)
  
   Cook Islands:Government
  
   Names:
   conventional long form: none
   conventional short form: Cook Islands
  
   Digraph: CW
  
   Type: self-governing parliamentary government in free association with
   New Zealand; Cook Islands is fully responsible for internal affairs;
   New Zealand retains responsibility for external affairs, in
   consultation with the Cook Islands
  
   Capital: Avarua
  
   Administrative divisions: none
  
   Independence: none (became self-governing in free association with New
   Zealand on 4 August 1965 and has the right at any time to move to full
   independence by unilateral action)
  
   National holiday: Constitution Day, 4 August
  
   Constitution: 4 August 1965
  
   Legal system: NA
  
   Suffrage: universal adult at age NA
  
   Executive branch:
   chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952);
   Representative of the Queen Apenera SHORT (since NA); Representative
   of New Zealand Adrian SINCOCK (since NA)
   head of government: Prime Minister Geoffrey HENRY (since 1 February
   1989); Deputy Prime Minister Inatio AKARURU (since 1 February 1989)
   cabinet: Cabinet; collectively responsible to the Parliament
  
   Legislative branch: unicameral
   Parliament: elections last held 24 March 1994 (next to be held NA);
   results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (25 total) Cook Islands
   Party 20, Democratic Party 3, Alliance Party 2
   note: the House of Arikis (chiefs) advises on traditional matters, but
   has no legislative powers
  
   Judicial branch: High Court
  
   Political parties and leaders: Cook Islands Party, Geoffrey HENRY;
   Democratic Party, Sir Thomas DAVIS; Cook Islands Labor Party, Rena
   JONASSEN; Cook Islands People's Party, Sadaraka SADARAKA; Alliance
   Party, Norman GEORGE
  
   Member of: AsDB, ESCAP (associate), ICAO, ICFTU, IFAD, INTELSAT
   (nonsignatory user), IOC, SPARTECA, SPC, SPF, UNESCO, WHO
  
   Diplomatic representation in US: none (self-governing in free
   association with New Zealand)
  
   US diplomatic representation: none (self-governing in free association
   with New Zealand)
  
   Flag: blue, with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant
   and a large circle of 15 white five-pointed stars (one for every
   island) centered in the outer half of the flag
  
   Economy
  
   Overview: Agriculture provides the economic base. The major export
   earners are fruit, copra, and clothing. Manufacturing activities are
   limited to a fruit-processing plant and several clothing factories.
   Economic development is hindered by the isolation of the islands from
   foreign markets and a lack of natural resources and good
   transportation links. A large trade deficit is annually made up for by
   remittances from emigrants and from foreign aid, largely from New
   Zealand. Current economic development plans call for exploiting the
   tourism potential and expanding the fishing industry.
  
   National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $57 million (1993
   est.)
  
   National product real growth rate: NA%
  
   National product per capita: $3,000 (1993 est.)
  
   Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.2% (1990)
  
   Unemployment rate: NA%
  
   Budget:
   revenues: $38 million
   expenditures: $34.4 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
   (1993 est.)
  
   Exports: $3.4 million (f.o.b., 1990)
   commodities: copra, fresh and canned fruit, clothing
   partners: NZ 80%, Japan
  
   Imports: $50 million (c.i.f., 1990)
   commodities: foodstuffs, textiles, fuels, timber
   partners: NZ 49%, Japan, Australia, US
  
   External debt: $124 million (1994)
  
   Industrial production: growth rate NA%; accounts for 5% of GDP
  
   Electricity:
   capacity: 14,000 kW
   production: 21 million kWh
   consumption per capita: 741 kWh (1993)
  
   Industries: fruit processing, tourism
  
   Agriculture: accounts for 12% of GDP, export crops - copra, citrus
   fruits, pineapples, tomatoes, bananas; subsistence crops - yams, taro
  
   Economic aid:
   recipient: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
   commitments (1970-89), $128 million; in 1994, Cook Islands received
   $4.3 million in budget support and $2.7 million in project aid from
   New Zealand, the country's largest source of aid
  
   Currency: 1 New Zealand dollar (NZ$) = 100 cents
  
   Exchange rates: New Zealand dollars (NZ$) per US$1 - 1.5601 (January
   1995), 1.6844 (1994), 1.8495 (1993), 1.8584 (1992), 1.7265 (1991),
   1.6750 (1990)
  
   Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
  
   Cook Islands:Transportation
  
   Railroads: 0 km
  
   Highways:
   total: 187 km
   paved: 35 km
   unpaved: gravel 35 km; improved earth 84 km; unimproved earth 33 km
   (1980)
  
   Ports: Avarua, Avatiu
  
   Merchant marine:
   total: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,464 GRT/2,181 DWT
  
   Airports:
   total: 7
   with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
   with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 3
   with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3
  
   Cook Islands:Communications
  
   Telephone system: 2,052 telephones
   local: NA
   intercity: NA
   international: 1 INTELSAT (Pacific Ocean) earth station
  
   Radio:
   broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0
   radios: 11,000
  
   Television:
   broadcast stations: 1
   televisions: 17,000 (1989)
  
   Cook Islands:Defense Forces
  
   Note: defense is the responsibility of New Zealand
  
  
  
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