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Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.

A hydroid of the family ampanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ.

Cancellarean. [R.]

Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star. Canicular days, the dog days, See Dog days. -- Canicular year, the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.

Having the form of a tube; tubular. [Written also canular.]

See Cannula, Cannular, and Cannulated.

The quality of being capillary.

The quality or condition of being capillary.

e; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

A member of a chapter. The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars. Ayliffe.

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

A capitular.

Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsula; hollow and fibrous. Capsular ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.

A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.

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

The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are ha…

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.