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CHONDROGANOIDEA n.
An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
CHONDROID a.
Resembling cartilage.
CHOROID a. 2 definitions
resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n.
CHOROIDAL a.
Pertaining to the choroid coat.
CHRISTMASTIDE n.
The season of Christmas.
CHROMID n.
One of the Chromidæ, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.
CHROMIDROSIS n.
Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.
CHROMOPLASTID n.
A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.
CHRYSALID a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.
CHRYSOIDINE n.
An artificial, yellow, crystalline dye, C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chrysoïdine proper.
CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW n.
A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.
CID n. 2 definitions
Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.
CIDER n.
The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.
CIDERIST n.
A maker of cider. [Obs.] Mortimer.
CIDERKIN n.
A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water. Ciderkin is made for common drinking, and supplies the place of small beer. Mortimer.
CINCHONIDINE n.
One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
CIRCUMMERIDIAN a.
About, or near, the meridian.
CIRSOID a.
Varicose. Cirsoid aneurism, a disease of an artery in which it becomes dilated and elongated, like a varicose vein.
CISSOID n.
A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.
CLIDASTES n.
A genus of exinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.
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