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Having the form of a crown or coronet; resembling a crown.

plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered…

Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.

Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form. [Written also corymbous.]

Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.

A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.

An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.

A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.

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.

Resembling cotton. [R.] Evelyn.

Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.

An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.