Coccyzus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   Cacicus
         n 1: a genus of tropical American orioles [syn: {Cacicus},
               {genus Cacicus}]

English Dictionary: Coccyzus	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cassia augustifolia n erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers; the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic; sometimes placed in genus Cassia Synonym(s): Alexandria senna, Alexandrian senna, true senna, tinnevelly senna, Indian senna, Senna alexandrina, Cassia acutifolia, Cassia augustifolia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Caucasic adj of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia; "Caucasian languages" Synonym(s): Caucasian, Caucasic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Caucasus n the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia Synonym(s): Caucasus, Caucasus Mountains a large region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains; oil is its major resource Synonym(s): Caucasia, Caucasus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Caucasus Mountains n the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia Synonym(s): Caucasus, Caucasus Mountains
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cheese sauce n white sauce with grated cheese
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cheesecake n made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Coccus hesperidum n pest on citrus trees [syn: brown soft scale, {Coccus hesperidum}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Coccyzus n a genus of Cuculidae Synonym(s): Coccyzus, genus Coccyzus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Coccyzus erythropthalmus n North American cuckoo; builds a nest and rears its own young Synonym(s): black-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cookie-sized adj having the approximate size of a cookie
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cush-cush n tropical American yam with small yellow edible tubers [syn: cush-cush, Dioscorea trifida]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cinnamic \Cin*nam"ic\, a. [From {Cinnamon}.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon. {Cinnamic acid} (Chem.), a white, crystalline, odorless substance. {C6H5.C2H2C2H2.CO2H}, formerly obtained from storax and oil of cinnamon, now made from certain benzene derivatives in large quantities, and used for the artificial production of indigo.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Benzile \Ben"zile\, n. [From {Benzoin}.] (Chem.) A yellowish crystalline substance, {C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5}, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cacogastric \Cac`o*gas"tric\, a. [Gr. [?][?][?][?][?] bad + [?][?][?][?][?][?] stomach.] Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] --Carlyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Case system \Case system\ (Law) The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive study of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of textbooks for reference and collateral reading.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cheese \Cheese\, n. [OE. chese, AS. c[c7]se, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. {Casein}.] 1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold. 2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese. 3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow ({Malva rotundifolia}). [Colloq.] 4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. --De Quincey. --Thackeray. {Cheese cake}, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. --Prior. {Cheese fly} (Zo[94]l.), a black dipterous insect ({Piophila casei}) of which the larv[91] or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese. {Cheese mite} (Zo[94]l.), a minute mite ({Tryoglyhus siro}) in cheese and other articles of food. {Cheese press}, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold. {Cheese rennet} (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family ({Golium verum}, or {yellow bedstraw}), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. {Cheese vat}, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chickasaws \Chick"a*saws\, n. pl.; sing. {Chickasaw}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Choky Chokey \Chok"y Chok"ey\, a. 1. Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate. 2. Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. [bd]A deep and choky voice.[b8] --Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. --T. Hughes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vine \Vine\, n. [F. vigne, L. vinea a vineyard, vine from vineus of or belonging to wine, vinum wine, grapes. See {Wine}, and cf. {Vignette}.] (Bot.) (a) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes. (b) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants. There shall be no grapes on the vine. --Jer. viii. 13. And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds. --2 Kings iv. 89. {Vine apple} (Bot.), a small kind of squash. --Roger Williams. {Vine beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of beetles which are injurious to the leaves or branches of the grapevine. Among the more important species are the grapevine fidia (see {Fidia}), the spotted {Pelidnota} (see {Rutilian}), the vine fleabeetle ({Graptodera chalybea}), the rose beetle (see under {Rose}), the vine weevil, and several species of {Colaspis} and {Anomala}. {Vine borer}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood or pith of the grapevine, especially {Sinoxylon basilare}, a small species the larva of which bores in the stems, and {Ampeloglypter sesostris}, a small reddish brown weevil (called also {vine weevil}), which produces knotlike galls on the branches. (b) A clearwing moth ({[92]geria polistiformis}), whose larva bores in the roots of the grapevine and is often destructive. {Vine dragon}, an old and fruitless branch of a vine. [Obs.] --Holland. {Vine forester} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of moths belonging to {Alypia} and allied genera, whose larv[91] feed on the leaves of the grapevine. {Vine fretter} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse, esp. the phylloxera that injuries the grapevine. {Vine grub} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of insect larv[91] that are injurious to the grapevine. {Vine hopper} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of leaf hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially {Erythroneura vitis}. See Illust. of {Grape hopper}, under {Grape}. {Vine inchworm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of any species of geometrid moths which feed on the leaves of the grapevine, especially {Cidaria diversilineata}. {Vine-leaf rooer} (Zo[94]l.), a small moth ({Desmia maculalis}) whose larva makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of the grapevine. The moth is brownish black, spotted with white. {Vine louse} (Zo[94]l.), the phylloxera. {Vine mildew} (Bot.), a fungous growth which forms a white, delicate, cottony layer upon the leaves, young shoots, and fruit of the vine, causing brown spots upon the green parts, and finally a hardening and destruction of the vitality of the surface. The plant has been called {Oidium Tuckeri}, but is now thought to be the conidia-producing stage of an {Erysiphe}. {Vine of Sodom} (Bot.), a plant named in the Bible (--Deut. xxxii. 32), now thought to be identical with the apple of Sodom. See {Apple of Sodom}, under {Apple}. {Vine sawfly} (Zo[94]l.), a small black sawfiy ({Selandria vitis}) whose larva feeds upon the leaves of the grapevine. The larv[91] stand side by side in clusters while feeding. {Vine slug} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the vine sawfly. {Vine sorrel} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Cissus acida}) related to the grapevine, and having acid leaves. It is found in Florida and the West Indies. {Vine sphinx} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of hawk moths. The larv[91] feed on grapevine leaves. {Vine weevil}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Vine borer} (a) above, and {Wound gall}, under {Wound}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Coccus \[d8]Coc"cus\, n.; pl. {Cocci}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] grain, seed. See {Cochineal}.] 1. (Bot.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect ({Coccus cacti}). 3. (Biol.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cochineal \Coch"i*neal\ (?; 277), [Sp. cochinilla, dim. from L. coccineus, coccinus, scarlet, fr. coccum the kermes berry, G. [?] berry, especially the kermes insect, used to dye scarlet, as the cohineal was formerly supposed to be the grain or seed of a plant, and this word was formerly defined to be the grain of the {Quercus coccifera}; but cf. also Sp. cochinilla wood louse, dim. of cochina sow, akin to F. cochon pig.] A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the {Coccus cacti}, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. {Opuntia cochinellifera}. Note: These insects are gathered from the plant, killed by the application of heat, and exposed to the sun to dry. When dried they resemble small, rough berries or seeds, of a brown or purple color, and form the cochineal of the shops, which is used for making carmine, and also as a red dye. Note: Cochineal contains as its essential coloring matter carminic acid, a purple red amorphous substance which yields carmine red.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coccygeous \Coccyg"eous\, a. Coccygeal. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Coccyx \[d8]Coc"cyx\, n.; pl. L. {Coccyges}. [L., cuckoo, Gr. [?], cuckoo, coccyx. So called from its resemblance to the beak of a cuckoo.] (Anat.) The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebr[91] more or less consolidated.
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.
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Chicago Heights, IL (city, FIPS 14026) Location: 41.50990 N, 87.63757 W Population (1990): 33072 (11620 housing units) Area: 23.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Chickasaw County, IA (county, FIPS 37) Location: 43.05970 N, 92.31701 W Population (1990): 13295 (5486 housing units) Area: 1307.2 sq km (land), 2.1 sq km (water) Chickasaw County, MS (county, FIPS 17) Location: 33.92205 N, 88.94803 W Population (1990): 18085 (6997 housing units) Area: 1299.1 sq km (land), 7.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Chisago City, MN (city, FIPS 11350) Location: 45.37035 N, 92.88805 W Population (1990): 2009 (907 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55013
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Chisago County, MN (county, FIPS 25) Location: 45.50167 N, 92.90855 W Population (1990): 30521 (11946 housing units) Area: 1081.8 sq km (land), 64.4 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Cochise County, AZ (county, FIPS 3) Location: 31.89082 N, 109.73696 W Population (1990): 97624 (40238 housing units) Area: 15980.3 sq km (land), 127.7 sq km (water)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Cauchy sequence A sequence of elements from some {vector space} that converge and stay arbitrarily close to each other (using the {norm} definied for the space). (2000-03-10)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Cisco Systems, Inc. {Ethernet} hardware manufacturers. {Home (http://www.cisco.com/)}. Address: 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706, USA. Telephone: +1 408 526 4000, +1 800 553 6387. Fax: +1 408 526 4100. (1995-04-19)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Cuckoo's Egg {The Cuckoo's Egg}