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

Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.

Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor. Camphoric acid, a white crystallizable substance, C10H16O4, obtained from the oxidation of camphor.

Pertaining to, or derived from camphor. [R.]

Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.

Of or pertaining to Canada. -- n.

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.

Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.

Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary.

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.

Of or pertaining to the family Canidæ, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.

Pertaining to hemp; hempen. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds…

Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.

Of pertaining to Canopus in egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming.

Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.

Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.