Camlan
1: (Arthurian legend) the battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded
camlet
1: a garment made of camlet fabric 2: a fabric of Asian origin; originally made of silk and camel's hair
camo
1: fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background [syn: {camouflage}]
camomile
1: Eurasian plant apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis [syn: {chamomile}, {Chamaemelum nobilis}, ...
camomile tea
1: tea-like drink made from camomile leaves and flowers
Camorra
1: a secret society in Naples notorious for violence and blackmail
camosh
1: any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America [syn: {camas}, {camass}, {quamash}, {camash}]
camouflage
1: an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories" [syn: {disguise}] 2: fabric dyed with ...
camouflaged
1: made invisible by means of protective coloring
camp
1: providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy H...
camp bed
1: a small bed that folds up for storage or transport [syn: {cot}]
Camp David
1: retreat northwest of Washington used by the president of the United States
camp down
1: establish or set up a camp [syn: {camp}]
camp follower
1: a prostitute who provides service to military personnel 2: a follower who is not a member of an ingroup
camp meeting
1: religious (usually evangelistic) meeting held in a large tent or outdoors and last several days
camp out
1: live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: {camp}, {encamp}, {bivouac}, {tent}]
camp robber
1: gray jay of northern North America with black-capped head and no crest; noted for boldness in thievery [syn: {Canada jay}, {gray jay}, {whisker jack}, {Perisoreus canadensis}]
camp-made
1: made as part of the arts-and-crafts program at summer camp; "my camp-made leather wallet"
campaign
1: a race between candidates for elective office; "I managed his campaign for governor"; "he is raising money for a Senate run" [syn: {political campaign}, {run}] 2: a series of actions advancing a pr...
campaign hat
1: a broad-brimmed felt hat with a high crown; formerly worn by the United States Army and Marine personnel
campaigner
1: a politician who is running for public office [syn: {candidate}, {nominee}]
campaigning
1: the campaign of a candidate to be elected [syn: {candidacy}, {candidature}, {electioneering}, {political campaign}]
campana
1: the shape of a bell [syn: {bell}, {bell shape}]
Campania
1: a region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia
campanile
1: a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building [syn: {belfry}]
campanula
1: any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers [syn: {bellflower}]
Campanula americana
1: annual or perennial of eastern North America with long spikes of blue or white flowers [syn: {tall bellflower}]
Campanula aparinoides
1: bellflower common in marshes of eastern North America having lanceolate linear leaves and small whitish flowers [syn: {marsh bellflower}]
Campanula carpatica
1: European perennial bellflower that grows in clumps with spreading stems and blue or white flowers [syn: {tussock bellflower}, {spreading bellflower}]
Campanula divaricata
1: bellflower of southeastern United States (Maryland to Georgia) having pale blue flowers [syn: {southern harebell}]
Campanula glomerata
1: bellflower of Europe to temperate Asia having dense spikes of violet-blue to white flowers [syn: {clustered bellflower}]
Campanula medium
1: European biennial widely cultivated for its blue or violet or white flowers [syn: {Canterbury bell}, {cup and saucer}]
Campanula persicifolia
1: perennial European bellflower with racemose white or blue flowers [syn: {peach bells}, {peach bell}, {willow bell}]
Campanula rapunculoides
1: erect European herb with creeping rootstocks and nodding spikelike racemes of blue to violet flowers [syn: {creeping bellflower}]
Campanula rapunculus
1: bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad [syn: {rampion}, {rampion bellflower}]
Campanula rotundifolia
1: perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers [syn: {harebell}, {bluebell}]
Campanula trachelium
1: European bellflower with blue-purple to lilac flowers formerly used to treat sore throat [syn: {throatwort}, {nettle-leaved bellflower}]
Campanulaceae
1: family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae [syn: {family Campanulaceae}, {bellflower family}]
Campanulales
1: an order or plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae [syn: {order Campanulales}]
campanular
1: shaped like a bell or campana; "campanulate flowers of the genus Campanula" [syn: {campanulate}, {campanulated}]
campanulate
1: shaped like a bell or campana; "campanulate flowers of the genus Campanula" [syn: {campanular}, {campanulated}]
campanulated
1: shaped like a bell or campana; "campanulate flowers of the genus Campanula" [syn: {campanulate}, {campanular}]
Campbell
1: United States mythologist (1904-1987) [syn: {Joseph Campbell}]
campeachy
1: spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing...
Campeche
1: Mexican city on the Bay of Campeche
Campephilus
1: a genus of Picidae [syn: {genus Campephilus}]
Campephilus principalis
1: large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct [syn: {ivorybill}, {ivory-billed woodpecker}]
camper
1: someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation 2: a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling [syn: {camping bus}, {motor home}]
camper trailer
1: a trailer equipped for occupancy (especially for holiday trips)
campestral
1: of fields or open country; "living in campestral seclusion"
campfire
1: a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp)
campfire girl
1: a girl who is a member of Campfire Girls; for girls age 7-18
campground
1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: {campsite}, {camping site}, {camping ground}, {bivouac}, {encampment}, {camping area}]
camphor
1: a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment
camphor ball
1: a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing [syn: {mothball}]
camphor daisy
1: annual of southern United States and Mexico having bristly leaves and pale yellow flowers [syn: {Haplopappus phyllocephalus}]
camphor dune tansy
1: densely hairy plant with rayless flowers; San Francisco Bay area [syn: {Tanacetum camphoratum}]
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camphor ice
1: a cerate made of camphor and wax and spermaceti and castor oil
camphor tree
1: large evergreen tree of warm regions whose aromatic wood yields camphor [syn: {Cinnamomum camphora}]
camphoraceous
1: being or having the properties of camphor; "camphoraceous odor"
camphorated
1: impregnated with camphor; "camphorated oil" [ant: {uncamphorated}]
camphoric
1: relating to or derived from or containing camphor; "camphoric linaments"
camphorweed
1: aromatic plant of western United States [syn: {turpentine camphor weed}, {vinegarweed}, {Trichostema lanceolatum}]
camping
1: the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn: {encampment}, {bivouacking}, {tenting}]
camping area
1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: {campsite}, {campground}, {camping site}, {camping ground}, {bivouac}, {encampment}]
camping bus
1: a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling [syn: {camper}, {motor home}]
camping ground
1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: {campsite}, {campground}, {camping site}, {bivouac}, {encampment}, {camping area}]
camping site
1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: {campsite}, {campground}, {camping ground}, {bivouac}, {encampment}, {camping area}]
campion
1: any plant of the genus Silene [syn: {silene}, {catchfly}]
campmate
1: someone who lives in the same camp you do
campong
1: a native village in Malaysia [syn: {Kampong}]
Camponotus
1: carpenter ants [syn: {genus Camponotus}]
Campsis radicans
1: a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers [syn: {trumpet creeper}, {trumpet vine}]
campsite
1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: {campground}, {camping site}, {camping ground}, {bivouac}, {encampment}, {camping area}]
Camptosorus
1: classification used in some especially former systems for plants usually placed in genus Asplenium [syn: {genus Camptosorus}]
Camptosorus rhizophyllus
1: ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip [syn: {walking fern}, {walking leaf}, {Asplenium rhizophyllum}]
campus
1: a field on which the buildings of a university are situated
campy
1: providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy H...
Campyloneurum
1: epiphytic ferns of tropical America [syn: {genus Campyloneurum}]
Campyloneurum augustifolium
1: fern with shorter and narrower leaves than Florida strap fern; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Argentina [syn: {Central American strap fern}, {narrow-leaved strap fern}]
Campylorhynchus
1: alternative classifications for the cactus wrens [syn: {genus Campylorhynchus}, {Heleodytes}, {genus Heleodytes}]
campylotropous
1: (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk [ant: {orthotropous}]
Camus
1: French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960) [syn: {Albert Camus}]
camwood
1: small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye [syn: {African sandalwood}, {Baphia nitida}]
can
1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: {tin}, {tin can}] 2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: {canful}] 3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: {can b...
can buoy
1: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: {can}]
can of worms
1: a source of unpredictable trouble and complexity
can opener
1: a device for cutting cans open [syn: {tin opener}]
can-do
1: marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done; "a can-do kind of person"; "the city's indomitable optimism and can-do spirit"
Canaan
1: an ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism [syn: {Palestine}, {Holy Land}, {Promised Land}]
Canaanite
1: a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before it was conquered by the Israelites 2: the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest
Canaanitic
1: a group of Semitic languages [syn: {Canaanitic language}]
Canachites
1: spruce grouse [syn: {genus Canachites}]
Canachites canadensis
1: North American grouse that feeds on evergreen buds and needles [syn: {spruce grouse}]
Canada
1: a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"
Canada anemone
1: common summer-flowering woodland herb of Labrador to Colorado [syn: {Anemone Canadensis}]
Canada balsam
1: yellow transparent exudate of the balsam fir; used as a transparent cement in optical devices (especially in microscopy) and as a mounting medium 2: medium-sized fir of northeastern North America; ...
Canada garlic
1: North American bulbous plant [syn: {meadow leek}, {rose leek}, {Allium canadense}]
Canada ginger
1: deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States [syn: {black snakeroot}, {Asarum canadense}]
Canada goose
1: common grayish-brown wild goose of North America [syn: {honker}, {Canadian goose}, {Branta canadensis}]
Canada jay
1: gray jay of northern North America with black-capped head and no crest; noted for boldness in thievery [syn: {gray jay}, {camp robber}, {whisker jack}, {Perisoreus canadensis}]
Canada lily
1: common lily of the eastern United States having nodding yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown [syn: {wild yellow lily}, {meadow lily}, {wild meadow lily}, {Lilium canadense}]
Canada lynx
1: of northern North America [syn: {Lynx canadensis}]
Canada moonseed
1: a woody vine of eastern North America having large oval leaves and small white flowers and purple to blue-black fruits [syn: {common moonseed}, {yellow parilla}, {Menispermum canadense}]
Canada plum
1: small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orange-red fruit [syn: {Prunus nigra}]
Canada porcupine
1: porcupine of northeastern North America with barbed spines concealed in the coarse fur; often gnaws buildings for salt and grease [syn: {Erethizon dorsatum}]
Canada thistle
1: European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed [syn: {creeping thistle}, {Cirsium arvense}]
Canada violet
1: tall North American perennial with heart-shaped leaves and purple-streaked white flowers [syn: {tall white violet}, {white violet}, {Viola canadensis}]
Canadian
1: of or relating to Canada or its people n 1: a native or inhabitant of Canada 2: a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of th...
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