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Partaking of the nature ofcalcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containg, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. Clcareous spar. See as Calcite.

Quality of being calcareous.

Lime-yielding; calciferous

Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.

buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark (or Cascarila) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, m…

A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.

Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. [Western U. S.]

Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.

See under Cartridge.

The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.

Of, like, or pertaining to, the Cercariæ. -- n.

The chough.

A district, or part of a province. See Sircar. [India]

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

e ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrott, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.

A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp.

A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.