Clitoria Clitoria is a flowering plant that is insect pollinated. In animal tests the methanolic extract of Clitoria ternatea roots demonstrated nootropic, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant and antistress activity. The active constituent(s) responsible for these effects have yet to be isolated.
	Clitoris The clitoris is a female sex organ. In humans, the visible knob-like portion is located near the anterior junction of the labia minora, above the opening of the vagina. Unlike the Homology male organ , the clitoris does not contain the distal portion of the urethra and functions solely to induce sexual pleasure.
	Clive Sinclair knighthood Clive Marles Sinclair , is a well-known United Kingdom entrepreneur and inventor of the world's first 'slim-line' electronic pocket calculator in 1972 and the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, amongst many other things.
	Cloaca In zoological anatomy, a cloaca is the posterior opening that serves as the only such opening for the alimentary tract, urinary tract, and Sex organs of certain animal species. The word comes from Latin, and means "sewer". All birds, reptiles, and amphibians possess this orifice, by which they simultaneously evacuate both urine and feces.
	Clobber Clobber is an abstract strategy game invented in 2001 by combinatorial game theory Michael Albert, J.P. Grossman and Richard Nowakowski. It has subsequently been studied by Elwyn Berlekamp and Erik Demaine among others. Since 2005 it has been one of the events in the Computer Olympiad.
	Clock A clock is an instrument for measuring time and for measuring time intervals of less than a day—as opposed to a calendar. Those used for technical purposes, of very high accuracy, are usually called chronometers. A common portable timekeeping instrument for personal use is the pocket or wrist watch.
	Clock face A clock face is the part of an analog clock that tells time through the use of a fixed numbered dial or dials and moving hand or hands. Typically, the dial is numbered 1-12 indicating the hours in a 12-hour cycle. The term face is also used for the time display on digital clocks and watches.
	Clock tower A clock tower is a tower built with one or more easily-seen clock faces.The clock tower is usually part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall, but many clock towers are free-standing. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock. It often marks the hour by sounding large bell s or chimes, sometimes playing simple musical phrases or tunes.
	Clockwork In mechanical engineering, a clockwork is either a lightweight mechanical linkage, especially one involving multiple axles, or a complete mechanical device whose functioning relies on internal clockwork, especially where muscular effort is the sole source of operating power. Often power for the device is stored within it via a winding device that applies mechanical stress to an energy-storage mechanism such as a spring, thus involving some form of escapement; in other cases, hand power may be utilized as it
	Cloisonné Cloisonn is a multi-step vitreous enamel process used to produce jewelry, vases, and other decorative items. Objects produced by this process are also called cloisonn.
	Cloister A cloister is a part of cathedral, monastic and abbey architecture. A cloister consists usually of four corridors, with a courtyard or garth in the middle. It is intended to be both covered from the rain, but open to the air. The attachment of a cloister to a Cathedral church usually indicates that it is a monastic foundation.
	Clomipramine Clomipramine is a tricyclic antidepressant.
	Clonidine Clonidine is a centrally acting antihypertensive agent, used mainly for this purpose in the past. It has found new uses, including treatment of some types of neuropathy, opioid detoxification, and, off-label, to counter the side effects of stimulant medication such as Methylphenidate or Adderall.
	Cloning Cloning is the process of recreating an identical copy of an original organism or thing. A clone in the biology sense, therefore, is a single Cell or multi-cellular organism that has been directly copied from and is therefore genetics identical to another living organism.
	Clorox The Clorox Company is a manufacturer of various food and chemical products based in Oakland, California, which is best known for its bleach product, Clorox.
	Close Shave Close Shave is one of Australia's longest serving male four voice a cappella quartet. The group based in Hobart and performs at conferences, dinners, weddings and other functions. Close Shave's repertoire is diverse: Popular, Comedy, Gospel, Sea Shanties, Jazz, Swing and of course the Barbershop music style.
	Closed-circuit television Closed-circuit television is the use of television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific, limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that all components are directly linked, and that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point wireless links.
	Closet A closet is a small and enclosed space, a cabinet, or a cupboard in a house or building used for general storage or hanging clothes. A closet for food storage is usually referred to as a pantry. Closets can be built into the walls of the house during construction so that they take up no space in the room, or they can be a large, free-standing piece of furniture designed for clothes storage, in which case they are often called a wardrobe or armoire.
	Clostridia The Clostridia are a class of Firmicutes, including Clostridium and other similar genera. They are distinguished from the Bacilli by lacking aerobic respiration. Studies show they are not a monophyletic group, and their relationships are not entirely certain. Most are currently placed within a single order, called Clostridiales.
	Clostridium botulinum Clostridium botulinum is a bacteria that produces the toxin botulin, the causative agent in botulism. It is included in the genus Clostridium, a major group of Gram-positive forms. C. botulinum was first recognized and isolated in 1896 by Emile van Ermengem and is commonly found in soil.
	Clostridium perfringens Clostridium perfringens is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium Endospore bacterium of the genus Clostridium. Clostridia are ubiquitous and found in soil, decaying vegetation, marine sediment, and the intestinal tract of humans, other vertebrates, and insects.
	Clothes dryer A clothes dryer or tumble dryer is a major household appliance that is used to remove the residual wikt:moisture from clothing and other textiles, generally shortly after they are cleaned in a washing machine or washing/drying machine. Most dryers consist of a rotating drum through which heated air is circulated.
	Clothes hanger A clothes hanger, or coat hanger, is a device in the shape of human shoulders designed to facilitate the hanging of a coat, jacket, sweater, shirt, blouse or dress in a manner that prevents wrinkles, with a lower bar for the hanging of pants. There are two basic types of clothes hangers, the wire hanger, a simple loop of wire in a flattened triangle shape, with the wire continuing into a hook at the top, and the wooden hanger, a flat piece of wood cut into a boomerang-like shape, and with the edges sanded down to prevent d
	Clotheshorse A clotheshorse refers to a frame upon which clothes are hung after washing to enable them to dry. Compare with washing line. The first known use of this word in print, in this sense, was in 1775. Also refers to people who seem to live to display clothing.
	Clothing Clothing is defined, in its broadest sense, as coverings for the torso and limbs as well as coverings for the hands , feet and head . Humans nearly universally wear clothing, which is also known as dress, garments, attire, or apparel. People wear clothing for functional as well as for social reasons.
	Clotted cream Clotted cream is a thick yellow cream made by heating and then leaving unpasteurized cow's milk in shallow pans for several hours; it is very similar to the Indian Malai. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface into 'clots'. Purists prefer the cows to come from the county of Devon or Cornwall in England; true Cornish clotted cream must be made from unpasteurised milk or the clots will not form.
	Cloud A cloud is a visible mass of condensed Drop or frozen crystals suspended in the Celestial body atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology in which clouds are studied is nephology. On Earth, the condensing substance is water vapor, which forms small droplets of water that, when surrounded with billions of other droplets or crystals, are visible as clouds.
	Cloud chamber The cloud chamber, also known as the Wilson chamber, is used for detecting particles of ionizing radiation. In its most basic form, a cloud chamber is a sealed environment containing a supercooled, supersaturated water vapour. When an alpha particle or beta particle interacts with the mixture, it ionises it.
	Cloudberry The cloudberry, also called bakeapple in Newfoundland and Labrador and Cape Breton Island, is a slow-growing species of Rubus, producing edible fruit. The botanical name derives from the Greek chamai and morus. Cloudberry is the name for both the plant and the fruit.
	Clove Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to Indonesia and used as a spice in cuisine all over the world. The name derives from French clou, a nail, as the buds vaguely resemble small irregular nails in shape. Cloves are harvested primarily in Indonesia and Madagascar; it is also grown in Zanzibar, India, and Sri Lanka.
	Clove hitch The clove hitch is a type of knot. It is one of a number of knots known as binding knots. It has been in use since ancient times. It consists of two half hitches lying in opposite directions around a post. The clove hitch is liable to slip. It requires a load in each direction in order to be effective.
	Clover Clover is a genus of about 300 species of plants in the pea family Fabaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution; the highest diversity is found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, but many species also occur in South America and Africa, including at high altitudes on mountains in the tropics.
	Clovis culture The Clovis culture is a prehistoric indigenous peoples of the Americas culture that first appears in the archaeology record of North America around 13,500 years ago, at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation. The culture is named for artifacts found near Clovis, New Mexico.
	Clovis I Clovis I was the first king of the Franks to unite that entire barbarian nation. He succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks, one of several Frankish tribes, who were then occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their centre around Tournai and Cambrai along the modern frontier between France and Belgium, in an area known as Toxandria.
	Clown A clown today is one of various types of comedic performers, on stage, television, in the circus , rodeo, children's & birthday party entertainers and Busking. Though not every clown is readily identifiable by appearance alone, clowns frequently appear in makeup and costume, as well as typically unusually large footwear, oversized or otherwise outlandish clothing, big or otherwise unusual nose, and enacting humorous sketches, usually in the interludes between circus acts.
	Clozapine Clozapine was the first of the atypical antipsychotics to be developed. It was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1989 and is the only FDA-approved medication indicated for treatment-resistant schizophrenia and for reducing the risk of suicidal behaviour in patients with schizophrenia.
	Club sandwich A club sandwich, also called a clubhouse sandwich, is a type of sandwich frequently served as a double-decker sandwich and generally cut into quarters, requiring three slices of toasted bread. The traditional club ingredients are turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise served on toast.
	Clubbing In medicine, clubbing is a deformity of the fingers and fingernails that is associated with a number of diseases, mostly of the heart disease and lung disease. Idiopathic clubbing can also occur. Hippocrates was probably the first to document clubbing as a sign of disease, and the phenomenon is therefore occasionally called Hippocratic fingers.
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	Clupeidae Clupeidae is the family of the herrings, shads, sardines, and menhadens. It includes many of the most important food fishes in the world.
	Clusia Clusia is the type genus of the family Clusiaceae. Comprising 140-150 species, it is native to tropical and subtropical Americas. Its species are shrubs, vines and small to medium-size trees up to 20 m tall, with evergreen foliage. Some species start life as epiphytes, then developing long roots that descend to the ground and eventually strangle and kill the host tree, in a manner similar to banyans.
	Clusiaceae The Clusiaceae is a family of plants including about 50 genera and 1200 species of trees and shrubs, often with milky sap and fruits or capsules for seeds. According to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, this family belongs to the order Malpighiales.
	Cluster bomb Cluster munitions are air-dropped or ground launched shells that eject multiple small submunitions. Their primary purpose is to kill enemy soldiers, although specialized weapons designed for anti-runway, anti-tank and land mine purposes have also been developed.
	Cluster headache Cluster headaches are rare, extremely painful and debilitating headaches that occur in groups or clusters.
	Clustered bellflower The Clustered Bellflower is a species of the genus Campanula. It grows to a height of 20-60 centimetres. It is the County flowers of the United Kingdom of Rutland in the United Kingdom.
	Clutch A clutch is a mechanism for transmitting rotation, which can be engaged and disengaged. In everyday use, the term clutch refers to a subcomponent of motor vehicle engine's Transmission designed to allow engagement or disengagement of the engine to the gearbox or whatever apparatus is being driven.
	Clyde Tombaugh Clyde William Tombaugh was an United States astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator, Illinois, La Salle County, Illinois. After his family moved to Burdett, Kansas, Tombaugh built his first telescope and sent drawings of his observations of Jupiter and Mars to the Lowell Observatory.
	Clydesdale Clydesdale was formerly a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland. In 1996 it was included in the South Lanarkshire Council areas of Scotland. Clydesdale F.C. are a former football team who were based in the area.
	Clyster Clyster is an old-fashioned word for enema, more particularly for enemas administered using a clyster syringe — that is, a syringe with a rectal nozzle and a plunger. Clyster syringes were used from the modern era to the 19th century, when they were largely replaced by enema bulb syringes, bocks, and bags.
	CN gas CN, or chloroacetophenone, is a gas used as a riot control agent. It has the molecular formular C8H13ClO. It was investigated, but not used, during the World War I and Second World Wars, and was used by United States forces in Vietnam. As its toxicity is apparently greater than that of CS gas, it has largely been supplanted by CS gas.
	Cnemidophorus Cnemidophorus is a genus of lizards which belong to the family of Teiidae, which are commonly referred to as Whiptail Lizards or Racerunners. In some of the Cnemidophorus species, there are no males, and they reproduce through parthenogenesis. This is common in lower animals such as bees and aphids, but very rare in vertebrates.
	Cnemidophorus sexlineatus The Six-lined Racerunner is a species of lizard found in the United States, from Wyoming across the Great Plains east to Rhode Island, south to Florida and west to southern Texas, and in northern Mexico, in Tamaulipas.
	Cnemidophorus tigris The marbled whiptail ranges throughout most of the southwestern United States. Key differences between them and the checkered whiptail would be the lack of enlarged scales anterior to the gular fold and the presence of enlarged antebatrachial scales. This lizard is most famous for same-sex reproduction.
	Cnicus Cnicus benedictus, the sole species in the genus Cnicus, is a thistle-like plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region, from Portugal north to southern France and east to Turkey. It is also sometimes called Cursed Thistle. It is an annual plant growing to 60 cm tall, with leathery, hairy leaf up to 30 cm long and 8 cm broad, with small spines on the margins.
	Cnidaria Cnidaria is a Phylum containing some 11000 species of relatively simple animals found exclusively in aquatic, mostly marine, environments. Cnidarians get their name from cnidocytes, which are specialized cells that carry stinging organelles. The corals, which are important reef-builders, belong here, as do the familiar sea anemones, jellyfish, sea pens, sea pansies and sea wasps.
	Cnidoscolus Cnidoscolus is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae.
	Coagulation The coagulation of blood is a complex process during which blood forms solid clots. It is an important part of hemostasis whereby a damaged blood vessel wall is covered by a fibrin clot to stop hemorrhage and aid repair of the damaged vessel. Disorders in coagulation can lead to increased hemorrhage and/or thrombosis and embolism.
	Coahuila Coahuila is one of Mexico's 31 component States of Mexico. It is located in the north of the country. To the north Coahuila accounts for a 512 km stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, adjacent to the United States U.S. state of Texas along the course of the Rio Grande.
	Coal Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open-pit mining . It is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. It is composed primarily of carbon along with assorted other elements, including sulfur. Often associated with the Industrial Revolution, coal remains an enormously important fuel.
	Coalesce Coalesce was a 4-piece metalcore band whose latest and final break-up occurred in 2005.
	Coalescent Coalescent is a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. It is part one of the Destiny's Children series. The novel is set in two different time periods: modern Britain, when George Poole finds that he has a previously unknown sister and follows a trail to a mysterious and ancient organisation in Rome; and the time of Regina, a girl growing up during the ending of Roman Britain in Britain, around AD 400.
	Coast The coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean. A coastline is properly, a line on a map indicating the disposition of a coast but the word is often used to refer to the coast itself. The adjective, coastal describes something as being on, near to or associated with a coast.
	Coast Live Oak The Coast Live Oak is an evergreen oak, highly variable and often shrubby, native to the coastal regions of southwestern North America from Mendocino County, California, California south to northern Baja California in Mexico. It is classified in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae section.
	Coaster Coaster can refer to: * A small piece of material, usually composed of wood or of cardboard, used to prevent a drink and its container from contacting a surface, such as a table , and leaving marks from drips or condensation. See beermat. * Roller coaster * Coastal trading vessel
	Coat of arms A coat of arms or armorial bearings , in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by him or her in a wide variety of ways. Unlike Seal and emblems, coats of arms have a formal description, that is expessed as a blazon. Coats of arms have their origins in the designs used by Middle Ages knights to make their armour and shield stand out in battle or tournaments and enable quick recognition by allies or spectators.
	Coati The name coati is applied to any of three species of small neotropical mammals in the genus Nasua, family Procyonidae, ranging from southern Arizona to north of Argentina. They are largely insectivore, but also eat fruit. A fourth animal, the dwarf Mountain Coati, is not a true coati, and belongs to the genus Nasuella.
	Coats Coats plc is the world's largest sewing Yarn and Textile art supplies manufacturer, processor, and distributor, with 25,000 employees and plants in over 65 countries while the company's products are sold in 150 countries.
	Coats Land Coats Land is a region in Antarctica which lies westward of Queen Maud Land and forms the eastern shore of the Weddell Sea, extending in a general northeast-southwest direction between 20º00´W and 36º00´W. The northeast part was discovered from the Scotia by William S. Bruce, leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-04.
	Coaxial In geometry, coaxial means that two or more forms which share a common Coordinate_axis; it is the three-dimensional linear analog of "concentric". Coaxial cable, as a common example, has a wire Conductor_(material) in the center a circumferential outer conductor and an insulator separating these two conductors.
	Coaxial cable Coaxial cable is an electrical cable consisting of a round conducting wire, surrounded by an Electrical insulation spacer, surrounded by a cylinder conducting sheath, usually surrounded by a final insulating layer. It is used as a transmission line#High-frequency electrical transmission lines to carry a high-frequency or broadband signal.