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Cornicula
(gcide) | Corniculum \Cor*nic"u*lum\ (k?r-n?k"?-l?m), n.; pl. Cornicula
(-l?). [L. corniculum little horn.] (Anat.)
A small hornlike part or process.
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Cornicular
(gcide) | Cornicular \Cor*nic"u*lar\ (-l?r), n. [L. cornicularius.]
A secretary or clerk. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Corniculate
(gcide) | Corniculate \Cor*nic"u*late\ (k?r-n?k"?-l?t), a. [L.
corniculatus.]
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1. Horned; having horns. --Dr. H. More.
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2. (Bot.) Having processes resembling small horns.
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Fratercula corniculata
(gcide) | Puffin \Puf"fin\ (p[u^]f"f[i^]n), n. [Akin to puff.]
1. (Zool.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to
the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence
the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy,
coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and {sea
parrot}.
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Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as
the horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata), the
tufted puffin (Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill.
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Manx puffin, the Manx shearwater. See under Manx.
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2. (Bot.) The puffball.
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3. A sort of apple. [Obs.] --Rider's Dict. (1640).
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Lotus corniculatas
(gcide) | Bird's-foot \Bird's"-foot`\, n. (Bot.)
A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved,
cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.
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Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.)
(a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. {Lotus
corniculatas}, with yellow flowers, is very common in
Great Britain.
(b) the related plant, Trigonella ornithopodioides, is also
European.
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Lotus corniculatus
(gcide) | Crowtoe \Crow"toe`\ (kr[=o]"t[=o]`), n. (Bot.)
1. The Lotus corniculatus. --Dr. Prior.
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2. An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. "The tufted
crowtoe." --Milton.
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Tropidorhynchus corniculatus
(gcide) | Friar \Fri"ar\, n. [OR. frere, F. fr[`e]re brother, friar, fr.
L. frater brother. See Brother.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order,
but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz:
(a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. {(b)
Augustines}. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. {(d) White
Friars or Carmelites.} See these names in the Vocabulary.
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2. (Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
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3. (Zool.) An American fish; the silversides.
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Friar bird (Zool.), an Australian bird ({Tropidorhynchus
corniculatus}), having the head destitute of feathers; --
called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; {poor
soldier}, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to
several other species of the same genus.
Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds
and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin,
styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of
benzoin. --Brande & C.
Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood.
Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare)
with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl.
Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp.
--Milton.
Friar skate (Zool.), the European white or sharpnosed skate
(Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, {border
ray}, scad, and doctor.
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fratercula corniculata
(wn) | Fratercula corniculata
n 1: northern Pacific puffin [syn: horned puffin, {Fratercula
corniculata}] |
lotus corniculatus
(wn) | Lotus corniculatus
n 1: European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in
America [syn: bird's foot trefoil, bird's foot clover,
babies' slippers, bacon and eggs, Lotus corniculatus] |
oxalis corniculata
(wn) | Oxalis corniculata
n 1: creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan [syn:
creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, {Oxalis
corniculata}] |
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