| carya | (n) genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China, Syn. genus Carya |
| caryatid | (n) a supporting column carved in the shape of a person |
| caryocar | (n) type genus of the Caryocaraceae; South American trees yielding strong fine-grained wood and edible nuts, Syn. genus Caryocar |
| caryocaraceae | (n) small genus of tropical South American trees, Syn. family Caryocaraceae |
| caryophyllaceae | (n) large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes), Syn. pink family, carnation family, family Caryophyllaceae |
| caryophyllaceous | (adj) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae |
| caryophyllaceous plant | (n) a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae |
| caryophyllales | (n) corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae, Syn. order Caryophyllales, order-Chenopodiales, Chenopodiales |
| caryophyllidae | (n) a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder, Syn. subclass Caryophyllidae |
| caryophylloid dicot family | (n) family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers |
| Caryatid | n.; pl. Caryatids [ See Caryatides. ] (Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Caryatid | { } a. Of or pertaining to a caryatid. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Caryatic |
| Caryatides | ‖n. pl. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; (&unr_;) priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at Caryæ (Gr. &unr_;), a village in Laconia; as an architectural term, caryatids. ] (Arch) Caryatids. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes, Telamones, and Persians. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Caryophyllaceous | a. [ Gr. &unr_; clove tree; &unr_; nut + &unr_; leaf. ] (Bot.) (a) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink. (b) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Caryophyllales | n. an order of plants which corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae.
Syn. -- order Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order-Chenopodiales. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Caryophyllidae | n. a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or free-central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); it contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; it corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; it is sometimes classified as a superorder.
Syn. -- subclass Caryophyllidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Caryophyllin | n. (Chem.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Caryophyllous | a. Caryophyllaceous. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Caryopsis | n.; pl. Caryopses [ NL., fr. gr. &unr_; hut, kernel + &unr_; sight, form. ] (Bot.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] |
