CAPANEUS

Name Report For First Name CAPANEUS:

First name CAPANEUS's origin is Greek. CAPANEUS means "myth name (one of the attackers against thebes)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CAPANEUS below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of capaneus.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with CAPANEUS and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with CAPANEUS - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming CAPANEUS

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CAPANEUS AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH CAPANEUS (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 7 Letters (apaneus) - Names That Ends with apaneus:

Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (paneus) - Names That Ends with paneus:

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (aneus) - Names That Ends with aneus:

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (neus) - Names That Ends with neus:

caeneus lorineus alcyoneus corineus idomeneus oeneus peneus salmoneus phineus

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eus) - Names That Ends with eus:

enygeus thaddeus batholomeus aconteus aegeus aloeus alpheus ancaeus androgeus antaeus aristaeus atreus briareus celeus cepheus coeus epopeus erechtheus eubuleus eumaeus eurystheus hyrieus lynceus menoeceus neleus nereus obiareus odysseus orpheus peleus pentheus pittheus prometheus proteus tereus theseus toxeus tydeus tyndareus zeus asayleus inteus zacchaeus typhoeus perseus clamedeus

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (us) - Names That Ends with us:

el-nefous cestus iasius lotus negus maccus dabbous dassous fanous abdul-quddus boulus butrus yunus dryhus bagdemagus brademagus isdernus peredurus britomartus luxovious nemausus ondrus argus ambrosius basilius bonifacius cecilius clementius egidius eugenius eustatius theodorus darius horus aldous brutus cassibellaunus guiderius ferragus marsilius senapus brus marcus seorus alemannus

NAMES RHYMING WITH CAPANEUS (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 7 Letters (capaneu) - Names That Begins with capaneu:

Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (capane) - Names That Begins with capane:

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (capan) - Names That Begins with capan:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (capa) - Names That Begins with capa:

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cap) - Names That Begins with cap:

capek capeka caprice caprina capucina capucine

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ca) - Names That Begins with ca:

cabal cabe cable cacamwri cacanisius cace cacey cachamwri caci cacia cadabyr cadan cadassi cadby cadda caddaham caddari caddaric caddarik caddawyc cade cadee cadell caden cadena cadence cadencia cadenza cadeo cadha cadhla cadi cadie cadis cadman cadmon cadmus cador cadwallon cady cadyna caedmon caedon caedwalla caelan caeli caellum caerleon caerlion caersewiella caesar caesare cafall caffar caffara caffaria caflice cagney cahal cahir cahira cai caidance cailean caileigh cailen cailey cailie cailin cailleach caillen caillic cailsey cailym cailyn caimbeaul cain caindale caine caira cairbre cairistiona caiseal cait caith caitie caitilin caitlan caitland caitlin caitlinn caitly caitlyn caitlynn

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CAPANEUS:

First Names which starts with 'cap' and ends with 'eus':

First Names which starts with 'ca' and ends with 'us':

caius calibumus carolus cassivellaunus

First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 's':

calais calchas calles candiss caress carlos carolos carys cass cebriones cecrops celsus cephalus cerberus ceres cetus chalmers chansomps charis charles charybdis chas cheops chess chimalis chloris chris christos chryseis chryses cinyras claas claennis claris claudas claudios claudius claus clematis cleobis cletus cloris clovis cocidius cocytus colis collins collis columbanus colys condwiramurs corliss cornelius coronis corybantes cosmas cottus countess cris cristos cronus ctesippus curtis curtiss cus cycnus cynegils cypris cyris cyrus

English Words Rhyming CAPANEUS

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CAPANEUS AS A WHOLE:

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAPANEUS (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (apaneus) - English Words That Ends with apaneus:

Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (paneus) - English Words That Ends with paneus:

Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (aneus) - English Words That Ends with aneus:

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (neus) - English Words That Ends with neus:

anconeus

noun (n.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eus) - English Words That Ends with eus:

aculeus	noun (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
	noun (n.) A sting.

alveus

noun (n.) The channel of a river.

archeus

noun (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.

caduceus

noun (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

cepheus

noun (n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.

cereus

noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.

choreus

noun (n.) Alt. of Choree

clypeus

noun (n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect.

coccosteus

noun (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

coleus

noun (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

corypheus

noun (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.

glutaeus

noun (n.) The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.

gluteus

noun (n.) Same as Glut/us.

ileus

noun (n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion.

malleus	noun (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
	noun (n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.
	noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.

morpheus

noun (n.) The god of dreams.

nucleus	noun (n.) A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
	noun (n.) The body or the head of a comet.
	noun (n.) An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.
	noun (n.) A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.
	noun (n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.
	noun (n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.
	noun (n.) The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.
	noun (n.) A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.

orpheus

noun (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.

paranucleus

noun (n.) Some as Nucleolus.

perseus	noun (n.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.
	noun (n.) A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.

pileus	noun (n.) A kind of skull cap of felt.
	noun (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
	noun (n.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.

pluteus

noun (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.

prometheus

noun (n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

pronucleus

noun (n.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

proteus	noun (n.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.
	noun (n.) A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak.
	noun (n.) A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.

reflueus

adjective (a.) Refluent.

scarabaeus	noun (n.) Same as Scarab.
	noun (n.) A conventionalized representation of a beetle, with its legs held closely at its sides, carved in natural or made in baked clay, and commonly having an inscription on the flat underside.

trinucleus

noun (n.) A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.

uraeus

noun (n.) A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power.

zeus

noun (n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CAPANEUS (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (capaneu) - Words That Begins with capaneu:

Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (capane) - Words That Begins with capane:

Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (capan) - Words That Begins with capan:

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (capa) - Words That Begins with capa:

capability	noun (n.) The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.
	noun (n.) Capacity of being used or improved.

capable	adjective (a.) Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault.
	adjective (a.) Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations.
	adjective (a.) Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of making a contract, or a will.
	adjective (a.) Capacious; large; comprehensive.

capableness

noun (n.) The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.

capacious	adjective (a.) Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor.
	adjective (a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.

capaciousness

noun (n.) The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.

capacitating

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capacitate

capacity	noun (n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
	noun (n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling.
	noun (n.) Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.
	noun (n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
	noun (n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency.

caparison	noun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative.
	noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing.
	verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse.
	verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress.

caparisoning

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caparison

caparro

noun (n.) A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cap) - Words That Begins with cap:

cap	noun (n.) A covering for the head
	noun (n.) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys
	noun (n.) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
	noun (n.) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
	noun (n.) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
	noun (n.) A respectful uncovering of the head.
	noun (n.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
	noun (n.) Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use
	noun (n.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.
	noun (n.) Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
	noun (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
	noun (n.) A percussion cap. See under Percussion.
	noun (n.) The removable cover of a journal box.
	noun (n.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
	noun (n.) A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
	verb (v. t.) To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.
	verb (v. t.) To deprive of cap.
	verb (v. t.) To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
	verb (v. t.) To salute by removing the cap.
	verb (v. t.) To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.
	verb (v. i.) To uncover the head respectfully.

capping

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cap

capcase

noun (n.) A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest.

cape	noun (n.) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
	noun (n.) A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.
	verb (v. i.) To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.
	verb (v. i.) To gape.

capel	noun (n.) Alt. of Caple
	noun (n.) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

caple	noun (n.) A horse; a nag.
	noun (n.) See Capel.

capelan

noun (n.) See Capelin.

capelin

noun (n.) A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod.

cappeline

noun (n.) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

capella

noun (n.) A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.

capellane

noun (n.) The curate of a chapel; a chaplain.

capelle

noun (n.) The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.

capellet

noun (n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down.

capellmeister

noun (n.) The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master.

capering

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caper

caper	noun (n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank.
	noun (n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer.
	noun (n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.
	noun (n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree.
	verb (v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

caperberry	noun (n.) The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.
	noun (n.) The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).

capercailzie

noun (n.) Alt. of Capercally

capercally

noun (n.) A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods.

caperer

noun (n.) One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.

capful

noun (n.) As much as will fill a cap.

capias

noun (n.) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.

capibara

noun (n.) See Capybara.

capillaceous

adjective (a.) Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

capillaire	noun (n.) A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.
	noun (n.) Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers.

capillament	noun (n.) A filament.
	noun (n.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves.

capillariness

noun (n.) The quality of being capillary.

capillarity	noun (n.) The quality or condition of being capillary.
	noun (n.) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.

capillary	noun (n.) A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
	noun (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
	adjective (a.) Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.

capillation

noun (n.) A capillary blood vessel.

capillature

noun (n.) A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair.

capilliform

adjective (a.) In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.

capillose

adjective (a.) Having much hair; hairy.

capistrate

adjective (a.) Hooded; cowled.

capital	noun (n.) Of or pertaining to the head.
	noun (n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
	noun (n.) First in importance; chief; principal.
	noun (n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
	noun (n.) Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
	noun (n.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
	noun (n.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
	noun (n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
	adjective (a.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
	adjective (a.) Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
	adjective (a.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
	adjective (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book.
	adjective (a.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a.

capitalist

noun (n.) One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.

capitalization

noun (n.) The act or process of capitalizing.

capitalizing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capitalize

capitalness

noun (n.) The quality of being capital; preeminence.

capitate	adjective (a.) Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.
	adjective (a.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.

capitatim

adjective (a.) Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.

capitation	noun (n.) A numbering of heads or individuals.
	noun (n.) A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax.

capite

noun (n.) See under Tenant.

capitellate

adjective (a.) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.

capitibranchiata

noun (n. pl.) A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

capitolian

adjective (a.) Alt. of Capitoline

capitoline

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome.

capitula

noun (n. pl.) See Capitulum.

capitular	noun (n.) An act passed in a chapter.
	noun (n.) A member of a chapter.
	noun (n.) The head or prominent part.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
	adjective (a.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.

capitulary	noun (n.) A capitular.
	noun (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.
	noun (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections.
	adjective (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CAPANEUS:

English Words which starts with 'cap' and ends with 'eus':

English Words which starts with 'ca' and ends with 'us':

cacophonous

adjective (a.) Alt. of Cacophonious

cacophonious

adjective (a.) Harsh-sounding.

cactaceous

adjective (a.) Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.

cactus

noun (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.

cadaverous	adjective (a.) Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.

caesious

adjective (a.) Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray.

calamiferous

adjective (a.) Producing reeds; reedy.

calamitous	adjective (a.) Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable.
	adjective (a.) Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy.

calamus	noun (n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
	noun (n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
	noun (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

calcareous

adjective (a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.

calcariferous

adjective (a.) Lime-yielding; calciferous

calciferous

adjective (a.) Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.

calcigenous

adjective (a.) Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.

calcigerous

adjective (a.) Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.

calcivorous

adjective (a.) Eroding, or eating into, limestone.

calculous	adjective (a.) Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion.
	adjective (a.) Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.

calculus	noun (n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
	noun (n.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.

caliginous

adjective (a.) Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

callous	adjective (a.) Hardened; indurated.
	adjective (a.) Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.

callus	noun (n.) Same as Callosity
	noun (n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
	noun (n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.

calumnious

adjective (a.) Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.

callyciflorous

adjective (a.) Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

camarasaurus

noun (n.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.

camous

adjective (a.) Alt. of Camoys

campanulaceous

adjective (a.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceae) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

camphoraceous

adjective (a.) Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.

campus

noun (n.) The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

campylospermous

adjective (a.) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.

campylotropous

adjective (a.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

camus

noun (n.) See Camis.

canaliculus

noun (n.) A minute canal.

cancellous

adjective (a.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

cankerous

adjective (a.) Affecting like a canker.

canopus

noun (n.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.

canorous

adjective (a.) Melodious; musical.

cantankerous

adjective (a.) Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.

canthus

noun (n.) The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.

capricious

adjective (a.) Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.

caprifoliaceous

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacae.

caprigenous

adjective (a.) Of the goat kind.

captious	adjective (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
	adjective (a.) Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome.

carabus

noun (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.

carbonaceous

adjective (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.

carboniferous

adjective (a.) Producing or containing carbon or coal.

carcinomatous

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to carcinoma.

caricous

adjective (a.) Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor.

carious

adjective (a.) Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.

carneous

adjective (a.) Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy.

carnivorous

adjective (a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

carnous	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy.
	adjective (a.) Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc.

carolus

noun (n.) An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.

carpophagous

adjective (a.) Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.

carpus

noun (n.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

cartilagineous

adjective (a.) See Cartilaginous.

cartilaginous	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
	adjective (a.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.

carunculous

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.

carus

noun (n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.

caryophyllaceous	adjective (a.) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink
	adjective (a.) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.

caryophyllous

adjective (a.) Caryophyllaceous.

caseous

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy.

cassideous

adjective (a.) Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.

cassius

noun (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.

casus

noun (n.) An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.

catadromous	adjective (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.
	adjective (a.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel.

catanadromous

adjective (a.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous.

catapetalous

adjective (a.) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

cataractous

adjective (a.) Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.

catarrhous

adjective (a.) Catarrhal.

catelectrotonus

noun (n.) The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

cathetus

noun (n.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle.

caucus	noun (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.
	verb (v. i.) To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.

cauliculus

noun (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.

caulocarpous

adjective (a.) Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.

cautelous	adjective (a.) Caution; prudent; wary.
	adjective (a.) Crafty; deceitful; false.

cautious

adjective (a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.

cavernous	adjective (a.) Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
	adjective (a.) Filled with small cavities or cells.
	adjective (a.) Having a sound caused by a cavity.

cavernulous

adjective (a.) Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal.

cavilous

adjective (a.) Alt. of Cavillous

cavillous

adjective (a.) Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing.

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