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Cycloganoidei

An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example.

Cycloidal

Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.

Cycloidei

An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.

Cyclometer

A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.

Cyclone

A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.

Cyclonoscope

An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone.

Cyclop

See Note under Cyclops, 1.

Cyclopaedia Cyclopedia

The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.

Cyclopean

Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.

Cyclopedic

Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.

Cyclophorus

a genus of tropical Old World ferns having closely crowded circular sori and no indusia.

Cyclopic

Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.

cyclopropane

a colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.

Cyclops

One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.

Cyclopterus

the type genus of the Cyclopteridae, consisting of lumpfishes. It includes Cyclopterus lumpus of the North Atlantic.

Cyclorama

A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.

Cycloscope

A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine.

Cyclosis

The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.

Cyclosorus

a small genus of terrestrial ferns of tropical and subtropical southern hemisphere.

Cyclosporeae

in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales.

cyclosporine cyclosporin

a chemical substance produced by some soil fungi, which suppresses the cellular immune response by inhibiting T cell activation, and has been used in medicine to reduce foreign tissue rejection, especially subsequent to organ transplant surgery.

Cyclostomi

A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.

Cyclostylar

Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within.

Cyclostyle

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.

cyclotron

a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics.

Cycnoches

a genus of epiphytic or terrestrial tropical American orchids.

Cydonia

a genus of plants including the quince.

Cydonin

A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.

Cygnus

A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.

Cylindrical Cylindric

Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.

cylindrically

In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.

Cylindroid

A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.

Cymar

A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.

Cymatium

A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.

Cymbal

A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.

Cymbiform

Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

Cymbium

A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.

Cyme

A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.

Cymene

A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

Cymidine

A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.

Cymogene

A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.

Cymoid

Having the form of a cyme.

Cymometer

An instrument for exhibiting and measuring wave motion an instrument for determining the frequency of electic wave oscillations, esp. in connection with wireless telegraphy.

Cymophanous

Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.

Cymoscope

Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves. The influence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.

Cymous Cymose

Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.

Cymric

Welsh. The Welsh language.

Cymry

A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves .

Cymule

A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.

Cynanche

Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

Cynanthropy

A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.

Cynarrhodium

A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

Cynic

One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.

Cynical Cynic

Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.

Cynicism

The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.

Cynodon

a genus of creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa.

cynodont

any member of the Cynodontia, a group of small carnivorous reptiles.

Cynodontia

a division of Triassic Therapsida comprising small carnivorous reptiles often with mammallike teeth.

Cynoglossidae

a natural family of fish including the tonguefishes.

Cynoidea

A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.

Cynomys

a genus of mammals comprising the prairie dogs.

Cynorexia

A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.

Cynoscephalae

the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated King Philip of Macedon.

Cynosure

The constellation of the Lesser Bear (Ursa Minor), to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.

Cynthia

the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon; daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with Roman Diana.

Cyon

See Cion, and Scion.

Cyperaceous

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.

Cyperus

A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus.

Cyphonautes

The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa.

Cyphonism

A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations.

Cypraea

A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie.

Cypraeidae

a natural family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries.

cypre

a large tropical American tree (Cordia alliodora) grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood.

Cypres

A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.

Cypress

A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

cypress-pine

any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of Australia and N Caledonia.

Cyprian

A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.

Cyprinidae

a natural family of fishes including the carp; tench; roach; rudd; and dace.

Cypriniformes

an order of fishes including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as Cyprinoidea, a suborder of Ostariophysi.

Cyprinodont

One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.

Cyprinodontidae

a large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies.

Cyprinoid

Like the carp (Cyprinus). One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc.

Cyprinus

the type genus of the family Cyprinidae; carp.

Cypriote Cypriot

of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture; as, Cypriote monasteries.

cypripedia

a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium.

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