carubin
Scientific name for locust bean gum

caruncle
A small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy.
Clipping of lacrimal caruncle: the red prominence at the inner corner of the eye.
A colored waxy or oily outgrowth near the micropyle of some seeds, attractive to ants which aid the seed's dispersal.

caruncles
plural of caruncle

caruncula
Synonym of caruncle.

carunculae
plural of caruncula

carybdeid
Any box jellyfish of the family Carybdeidae.

carybdeids
plural of carybdeid

caryoplasm
Archaic form of karyoplasm.

cascadura
Any of the armoured freshwater catfish of the genus Hoplosternum (syn. Cascadura).

cascaduras
plural of cascadura

casebearer
Any casebearing moth.

caseworm
A worm or larva that makes a protective case for itself.

caseworms
plural of caseworm

casquehead
Any casquehead lizard (family Corytophanidae).

casqueheads
plural of casquehead

cassican
An American bird (Psarocolius decumanus, syn. Cassicus cristatus), allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest.
A piping crow.
A piping crow.

cassicans
plural of cassican

cassidine
Any beetle of the Cassidinae, also called tortoise beetles and leaf-mining beetles.

cassidines
plural of cassidine

cassidoid
A beetle which is a member of the family Cassidinae

cassidoids
plural of cassidoid

castella
plural of castellum

castellas
plural of castella

castellum
A small Roman detached fort or fortlet used as a watch tower or signal station.

castellums
plural of castellum

castemate
A member of the same caste.

castemates
plural of castemate

castorette
The fur of a beaver (or of some other animal treated to imitate this fur).

castorettes
plural of castorette

castorid
Any member of the Castoridae; a beaver.

castorids
plural of castorid

castorimorph
Any rodent of the suborder Castorimorpha

castorimorphs
plural of castorimorph

castrum
Among the Ancient Romans, a building or plot of land used as a military defensive position.

cat snake
Any of the genus Boiga of rear-fanged, mildly venomous colubrid snakes.

cat's eye
A retroreflective device placed on a road surface as a marking that can be seen even at night.
A glass marble with elongated colourful inclusions running through its axis.
A gemstone exhibiting chatoyancy.
Cymophane (translucent yellow chatoyant chrysoberyl).
A sea snail, Lunella smaragda
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cat, eye.; the eye of a cat.

cat's eyes
plural of cat's eye

catabases
plural of catabasis

catalufa
Any of three priacanthid fish: Heteropriacanthus cruentatus, Priacanthus arenatus, and Pristigenys serrula.

catalufas
plural of catalufa

catamountain
A leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus); also, an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).
A man living in the mountains.

catamountains
plural of catamountain

catasterism
The transformation of a hero or mythological creature, into a star, constellation, comet or other celestial object.

catasterisms
plural of catasterism

catball
old cat (sport)

catbath
A session of grooming, in which a cat cleans its own fur or that of another cat using its tongue.
A quick wash by wiping or dabbing the skin, especially of one's face.
A form of foreplay, chiefly in Southeast Asian sex work, in which one participant licks the other all over their body.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cat, bath.

catbaths
plural of catbath

catbutt
The backside of a cat.

catbutts
plural of catbutt

catenby
A nonbinary fictional character who has the characteristics of a cat, an nonbinary anthropomorphic cat.

catenicellid
Any member of the Catenicellidae.

catenicellids
plural of catenicellid

cathartid
Any member of the Cathartidae, the New World vultures.

cathartids
plural of cathartid

cathodegraph
Alternative form of cathodograph.

cathodegraphs
plural of cathodegraph

cathodograph
An X-ray image; a radiograph.

cathodographs
plural of cathodograph

caticorn
A fictional creature which is a cross between a unicorn and a cat, often resembling a cat with a single horn on its forehead.

caticorns
plural of caticorn

catitude
An attitude belonging to or befitting a cat.

catitudes
plural of catitude

catloaf
The loaflike form of a domestic cat sitting with its paws and tail tucked underneath its body.

catloaves
plural of catloaf

catself
A feline self; the individual nature of a cat.

catseye
Alternative spelling of cat's eye.

catseyes
plural of catseye

catshit
The feces from a cat (feline feces).

catshits
plural of catshit

catsicle
A cold or frozen cat.

catsicles
plural of catsicle

catsona
An original character, such as a fursona, that is a cat or other feline.

catsonas
plural of catsona

cattabu
An animal that is a cross between the zebu and American cattle.

cattleheart
Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Parides, of the Neotropics.

catto
A cat.

cattos
plural of catto

caucasians
plural of caucasian

caudalization
The growth of a tail

caudalizations
plural of caudalization

caudates
plural of caudate

caudectomies
plural of caudectomy

caudectomy
The surgical removal of all or part of an animal's tail.

cauf
A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

cauves
plural of cauf

cava
Alternative letter-case form of Cava, a Catalan white sparkling wine.

cavae
plural of cava

cavalla
Any of several fishes in the families Carangidae and Scombridae.

cavallas
plural of cavalla

cavas
plural of cava

cavernicole
A cavernicolous organism

cavernicoles
plural of cavernicole

caveson
Alternative form of cavesson.

cavesons
plural of caveson

cavesson
A part of a horse's bridle that consists of a headstall with a noseband. When a martingale is used, it is attached to the horse's head at the cavesson.

cavessons
plural of cavesson

cavezon
Alternative form of cavesson.

cavezons
plural of cavezon

caviar
Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.
Something whose flavor is too fine for the vulgar taste.

caviare
Alternative spelling of caviar.

caviares
plural of caviare

caviars
plural of caviar

caviid
Any member of the family Caviidae of guinea pigs and similar rodents.

caviids
plural of caviid

cavimorph
Alternative form of caviomorph.

cavimorphs
plural of cavimorph

cavioid
Any rodent of the superfamily Cavioidea

cavioids
plural of cavioid

caviomorph
Any rodent of the infraorder (sometimes parvorder) Caviomorpha, that unites all South American hystricognaths.

caviomorphs
plural of caviomorph

cawquaw
A Canadian porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).

caygotte
a coyote

cebid
Any monkey in the family Cebidae.

cebids
plural of cebid

cebocephaly
A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.

cecaelia
A composite mythical being, combining the head, arms and torso of a woman (more rarely a man) and, from the lower torso down, the tentacles of an octopus or squid as a form of mermaid, sea witch, or sea demon.

cecaelias
plural of cecaelia

celom
Alternative spelling of coelom.

celoma
A cavity in the mesoderm of a vertebrate embryo that gives rise to the pleural, pericardial and peritoneal cavities

celomas
plural of celoma

celoms
plural of celom

cenome
All the control genes of an organism
One of the entities that make up a system of cenomics.

cenomes
plural of cenome

centaurism
The evolution of a creature with at least three pairs of legs evolving to give rise to a descendant where the frontmost pair of legs is raised from the ground, no longer being used in locomotion and freeing them up for other activities.

centicore
Synonym of yale (“mythological creature”).

centicores
plural of centicore

centracanthid
Any member of the family Centracanthidae of picarel fishes.

centracanthids
plural of centracanthid

centrarchid
Any member of the Centrarchidae, the freshwater sunfishes.

centrarchids
plural of centrarchid