Index of English words, starting with "ca"

(1) - Calypso (n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N.

(1) - Calyptra (n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

(1) - Calyx (n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.
(2) - Calyx (n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.