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- cauligenous — originating or protruding from the stem of a plant
- cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
- celliferous — making or bearing cells
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
- ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
- cheliferous — bearing chelae
- chin cactus — any of various globular cacti of the genus Gymnocalycium, native to South America, having white or pinkish flowers and a chinlike protrusion below each cluster of spines.
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- cincinnatus — Lucius Quinctius (ˈluːsɪəs ˈkwɪŋktɪəs). ?519–438 bc, Roman general and statesman, regarded as a model of simple virtue; dictator of Rome during two crises (458; 439), retiring to his farm after each one
- cineritious — See cinereous.
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- club fungus — basidiomycete
- cnidogenous — producing or containing nematocysts.
- cocciferous — (of a plant) bearing berries
- coconscious — a division within the subconscious
- collagenous — any of a class of extracellular proteins abundant in higher animals, especially in the skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, and teeth, forming strong insoluble fibers and serving as connective tissue between cells, yielding gelatin when denatured by boiling.
- combustious — turbulent
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compositous — relating to or belonging to the plant family Asteraceae
- conceptious — prolific or fruitful
- conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
- concolorous — concolor
- congenerous — Having the same (kind of) origin or action.
- conspicious — Misspelling of conspicuous.
- conspicuous — If someone or something is conspicuous, people can see or notice them very easily.
- contaminous — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contentious — A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- convolvulus — any typically twining herbaceous convolvulaceous plant of the genus Convolvulus, having funnel-shaped flowers and triangular leaves
- convulvulus — Misspelling of convolvulus A plant of the bindweed family.
- corniferous — producing or containing chert
- cornigerous — horned
- coronavirus — a type of airborne virus accounting for 10-30% of all colds
- corticolous — living or growing on the surface of bark
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- coude-focus — a telescope in which light from the primary mirror is reflected along the polar axis to additional mirrors, and in which the focus (coudé focus) is independent of the telescope's motion, permitting the use of heavy instruments without disturbing the delicate balance of the telescope.
- crab cactus — Christmas cactus
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- cruciferous — of, relating to, or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- culmicolous — (of a fungus) growing on grass culms.