Vocabulary : Cyathophylloid to Cyclic
Cyathophylloid : Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidae. ;; A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.
Cycad : Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc.
Cycadaceous : Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.
Cycas : A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.
Cyclamen : A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.
Cyclamin : A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum.
Cyclas : A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.
Cycle : An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. ;; An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year. ;; An age; a long period of time. ;; An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. ;; The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins. ;; One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves. ;; A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede. ;; To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles. ;; To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle. ;; A series of operations in which heat is imparted to (or taken away from) a wor
Cycled : of Cycle
Cyclic : Alt. of Cyclical
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