First Names Rhyming COTTUS
English Words Rhyming COTTUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES COTTUS AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COTTUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ottus) - English Words That Ends with ottus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ttus) - English Words That Ends with ttus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (tus) - English Words That Ends with tus:
| afflatus | noun (n.) A breath or blast of wind. |
| | noun (n.) A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. |
| ailantus | noun (n.) A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di/cious, and the staminate or male plant is very offensive when blossom. |
| amarantus | noun (n.) Same as Amaranth. |
| ambitus | noun (n.) The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell. |
| | noun (n.) A canvassing for votes. |
| amotus | adjective (a.) Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground. |
| apparatus | noun (n.) Things provided as means to some end. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism. |
| | noun (n.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. |
| | (pl. ) of Apparatus |
| arbutus | noun (n.) Alt. of Arbute |
| asbestus | noun (n.) Alt. of Asbestos |
| asphaltus | noun (n.) See Asphalt. |
| attritus | noun (n.) Matter pulverized by attrition. |
| benedictus | adjective (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version. |
| boletus | noun (n.) A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| cestus | noun (n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form. |
| | noun (n.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron. |
| cognatus | noun (n.) A person connected through cognation. |
| conatus | noun (n.) A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort. |
| conspectus | noun (n.) A general sketch or outline of a subject; a synopsis; an epitome. |
| crepitus | noun (n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Crepitation, 2. |
| cultus | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2. |
| | adjective (a.) Bad, worth less; no good. |
| cumulostratus | noun (n.) A form of cloud. See Cloud. |
| decubitus | noun (n.) An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus. |
| delectus | noun (n.) A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek. |
| detritus | noun (n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration. |
| emeritus | noun (n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service. |
| | adjective (a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. |
| eucalyptus | noun (n.) A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia. |
| exocetus | noun (n.) Alt. of Exocoetus |
| exocoetus | noun (n.) A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish. |
| fetus | noun (n.) The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages. |
| flatus | noun (n.) A breath; a puff of wind. |
| | noun (n.) Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body. |
| | (pl. ) of Flatus |
| foetus | noun (n.) Same as Fetus. |
| fremitus | noun (n., sing. & pl.) Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus. |
| gymnotus | noun (n.) A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power. |
| habitus | noun (n.) Habitude; mode of life; general appearance. |
| hiatus | noun (n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break. |
| | noun (n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables. |
| | (pl. ) of Hiatus |
| ictus | noun (n.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis. |
| | noun (n.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc. |
| impetus | noun (n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force. |
| | noun (n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece. |
| lacertus | noun (n.) A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibers. |
| leptus | noun (n.) The six-legged young, or larva, of certain mites; -- sometimes used as a generic name. See Harvest mite, under Harvest. |
| linctus | noun (n.) Medicine taken by licking with the tongue. |
| literatus | noun (n.) A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. |
| lotus | noun (n.) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments. |
| | noun (n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it. |
| | noun (n.) The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote. |
| | noun (n.) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover. |
| | noun (n.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily. |
| mallotus | noun (n.) A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod. |
| meatus | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear. |
| notus | noun (n.) The south wind. |
| quietus | adjective (a.) Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death. |
| | adjective (a.) Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death. |
| pectus | noun (n.) The breast of a bird. |
| pericarditus | noun (n.) Inflammation of the pericardium. |
| peripatus | noun (n.) A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda. |
| plutus | noun (n.) The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH COTTUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (cottu) - Words That Begins with cottu:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (cott) - Words That Begins with cott:
| cottage | noun (n.) A small house; a cot; a hut. |
| cottaged | adjective (a.) Set or covered with cottages. |
| cottagely | adjective (a.) Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. |
| cottager | noun (n.) One who lives in a cottage. |
| | noun (n.) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own. |
| cotter | noun (n.) Alt. of Cottar |
| | noun (n.) A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key. |
| | noun (n.) A toggle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fasten with a cotter. |
| cottar | noun (n.) A cottager; a cottier. |
| cottier | noun (n.) In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. |
| cottise | noun (n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close. |
| cottised | adjective (a.) Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess. |
| cottoid | noun (n.) A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin. |
| | adjective (a.) Like a fish of the genus Cottus. |
| cottolene | noun (n.) A product from cotton-seed, used as lard. |
| cotton | noun (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half. |
| | noun (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. |
| | noun (n.) Cloth made of cotton. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed. |
| | verb (v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. |
| cottonade | noun (n.) A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton. |
| cottonary | adjective (a.) Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. |
| cottonous | adjective (a.) Resembling cotton. |
| cottontail | noun (n.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail. |
| cottonweed | noun (n.) See Cudweed. |
| cottonwood | noun (n.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States. |
| cottony | adjective (a.) Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton. |
| cottrel | noun (n.) A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire. |
| cotta | noun (n.) A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of very coarse woolen blanket. |
| cotton seed | noun (n.) Alt. of Cottonseed |
| cottonseed | noun (n.) The seed of the cotton plant. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cot) - Words That Begins with cot:
| cot | noun (n.) A small house; a cottage or hut. |
| | noun (n.) A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote. |
| | noun (n.) A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger. |
| | noun (n.) A small, rudely-formed boat. |
| | noun (n.) A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. |
| cotangent | noun (n.) The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. |
| cotarnine | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid. |
| cote | noun (n.) A cottage or hut. |
| | noun (n.) A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. |
| | verb (v. t.) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare. |
| | verb (v. t.) To quote. |
| cotemporaneous | adjective (a.) Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous. |
| cotemporary | noun (n.) One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary. |
| | adjective (a.) Living or being at the same time; contemporary. |
| cotenant | noun (n.) A tenant in common, or a joint tenant. |
| coterie | noun (n.) A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. |
| coterminous | adjective (a.) Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with. |
| cotgare | noun (n.) Refuse wool. |
| cothurn | noun (n.) A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general. |
| cothurnate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cothurnated |
| cothurnated | adjective (a.) Wearing a cothurn. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave. |
| cothurnus | noun (n.) Same as Cothurn. |
| coticular | adjective (a.) Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones. |
| cotidal | adjective (a.) Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time. |
| cotillon | noun (n.) Alt. of Cotillion |
| cotillion | noun (n.) A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille. |
| | noun (n.) A tune which regulates the dance. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of woolen material for women's skirts. |
| | noun (n.) A formal ball. |
| cotinga | noun (n.) A bird of the family Cotingidae, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers. |
| cotise | noun (n.) See Cottise. |
| cotised | adjective (a.) See Cottised. |
| cotland | noun (n.) Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter. |
| cotquean | noun (n.) A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women. |
| | noun (n.) A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. |
| cotqueanity | noun (n.) The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean. |
| cotrustee | noun (n.) A joint trustee. |
| cotswold | noun (n.) An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. |
| cotyla | noun (n.) Alt. of Cotyle |
| cotyle | noun (n.) A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum. |
| cotyledon | noun (n.) One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta. |
| | noun (n.) A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf. |
| cotyledonal | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon. |
| cotyledonary | adjective (a.) Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow. |
| cotyledonous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe. |
| cotyliform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a cotyle or a cup. |
| cotyligerous | adjective (a.) Having cotyles. |
| cotyloid | adjective (a.) Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch. |
| coteau | noun (n.) A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide. |
| | noun (n.) The side of a valley. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH COTTUS:
English Words which starts with 'co' and ends with 'us':
| cobaltiferous | adjective (a.) Containing cobalt. |
| cobaltous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence. |
| cocciferous | adjective (a.) Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants. |
| coccosteus | noun (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles. |
| cocculus indicus | noun (n.) The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant. |
| coccus | noun (n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti). |
| | noun (n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule. |
| coccygeous | adjective (a.) Coccygeal. |
| coelospermous | adjective (a.) Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed. |
| coenurus | noun (n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid. |
| coetaneous | adjective (a.) Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous. |
| coevous | adjective (a.) Coeval |
| coinstantaneous | adjective (a.) Happening at the same instant. |
| coleopterous | adjective (a.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera. |
| coleus | noun (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves. |
| collagenous | adjective (a.) Containing or resembling collagen. |
| collatitious | adjective (a.) Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. |
| colossus | noun (n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. |
| | noun (n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size. |
| columbiferous | adjective (a.) Producing or containing columbium. |
| comatous | adjective (a.) Comatose. |
| combustious | adjective (a.) Inflammable. |
| commentitious | adjective (a.) Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. |
| commodious | adjective (a.) Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. |
| compendiarious | adjective (a.) Short; compendious. |
| compendious | adjective (a.) Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. |
| complexus | noun (n.) A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication. |
| compositous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Compositae; composite. |
| compsognathus | noun (n.) A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features. |
| compunctious | adjective (a.) Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. |
| concavous | adjective (a.) Concave. |
| conceptious | adjective (a.) Apt to conceive; fruitful. |
| conchiferous | adjective (a.) Producing or having shells. |
| conchylaceous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Conchyliaceous |
| conchyliaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. |
| conchylious | adjective (a.) Conchylaceous. |
| concinnous | adjective (a.) Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant. |
| concolorous | adjective (a.) Of the same color throughout. |
| concupiscentious | adjective (a.) Concupiscent. |
| confervaceous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the confervae. |
| confervous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae. |
| confus | adjective (a.) Confused, disturbed. |
| congenerous | adjective (a.) Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. |
| congenious | adjective (a.) Congeneric. |
| congius | noun (n.) A liquid measure containing about three quarts. |
| | noun (n.) A gallon, or four quarts. |
| congruous | adjective (a.) Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. |
| coniferous | adjective (a.) Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type. |
| connutritious | adjective (a.) Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. |
| consanguineous | adjective (a.) Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. |
| conscientious | adjective (a.) Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person. |
| | adjective (a.) Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions. |
| conscious | adjective (a.) Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. |
| | adjective (a.) Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible. |
| | adjective (a.) Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt. |
| consectaneous | adjective (a.) Following as a matter of course. |
| consensus | noun (n.) Agreement; accord; consent. |
| consentaneous | adjective (a.) Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. |
| consonous | adjective (a.) Agreeing in sound; symphonious. |
| conspicuous | adjective (a.) Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. |
| | adjective (a.) Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault. |
| contagious | adjective (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease. |
| | adjective (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air. |
| | adjective (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others. |
| contemporaneous | adjective (a.) Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary. |
| contemptuous | adjective (a.) Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. |
| contentious | adjective (a.) Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention. |
| | adjective (a.) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. |
| conterminous | adjective (a.) Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. |
| conterraneous | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to the same country. |
| contiguous | adjective (a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. |
| continuous | adjective (a.) Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. |
| | adjective (a.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. |
| contrarious | adjective (a.) Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse. |
| contumacious | adjective (a.) Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient. |
| | adjective (a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. |
| contumelious | adjective (a.) Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. |
| | adjective (a.) Shameful; disgraceful. |
| conus | noun (n.) A cone. |
| | noun (n.) A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4. |
| convicious | adjective (a.) Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. |
| convolvulaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples. |
| convolvulus | noun (n.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea. |
| copious | adjective (a.) Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful. |
| coprophagous | adjective (a.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects. |
| corallaceous | adjective (a.) Like coral, or partaking of its qualities. |
| coralliferous | adjective (a.) Containing or producing coral. |
| coralligenous | adjective (a.) producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous. |
| coralligerous | adjective (a.) Producing coral; coralliferous. |
| corchorus | noun (n.) The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens. |
| coriaceous | adjective (a.) Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough. |
| | adjective (a.) Stiff, like leather or parchment. |
| cormus | noun (n.) See Corm. |
| | noun (n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached. |
| corneocalcareous | adjective (a.) Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals. |
| | adjective (a.) Horny on one side and calcareous on the other. |
| corniferous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York. |
| cornigerous | adjective (a.) Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. |
| corollaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla. |
| corolliflorous | adjective (a.) Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral. |
| corpus | noun (n.) A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. |
| corpusculous | adjective (a.) Corpuscular. |
| corticiferous | adjective (a.) Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark. |
| | adjective (a.) Having a barklike c/nenchyms. |
| corticous | adjective (a.) Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose. |
| corymbiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit. |
| corypheus | noun (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest. |
| costiferous | adjective (a.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae. |
| courageous | adjective (a.) Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold. |
| courteous | adjective (a.) Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant. |
| couscous | noun (n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo. |
| covenous | adjective (a.) See Covinous, and Covin. |
| covinous | adjective (a.) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest. |
