Colchicum Colchicum is a genus of flowering plants containing around sixty species of perennials which grow from corms. It is a member of family Colchicaceae, and is native to West Asia and part of the Mediterranean coast. Colchicum autumnale, commonly called "autumn crocus" or "naked ladies", is the best known species.
	Colchicum autumnale Colchicum autumnale, commonly known as autumn crocus, meadow saffron or naked lady, resembles the true crocuses, but flowering in autumn. The name "naked lady" comes from the fact that the flowers emerge from the ground long after the leaves have died back. The plant has been mistaken by foragers for ramsons, which it vaguely resembles, but is a deadly poison due to the presence of colchicine, a useful drug with a narrow therapeutic index.
	Colchis In ancient geography, Colchis Georgian language: ???????, Kolkheti;was a nearly triangular ancient western Georgian Kingdom in Caucasus. Now the western part of Georgia, it was in Greek mythology the home of Aeetes and Medea and the destination of the Argonauts.
	Cold Chisel Cold Chisel produced the canonical example of Australian Pub rock , with a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and they are acknowledged as one of the most popular and successful Australian groups of the period, although this success and acclaim was almost completely restricted to Australia.
	Cold Feet Cold Feet is a United Kingdom comedy/drama, made by Granada Television, broadcast on the ITV network and shown in five series between 1997 and 2003. The original cast were James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson, Fay Ripley, Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris.
	Cold frame In agriculture and gardening, a cold frame is a Transparency-roofed enclosure, built low to the ground, used to protect plants from cold weather. The transparent top admits sunlight and relies on the greenhouse effect to Reflection back radiant heat that would otherwise escape at night.
	Cold fusion By definition, Cold fusion is a nuclear fusion reaction that takes place at or near room temperature and normal pressure instead of the millions of Degree required for Plasma fusion reactions. Cold fusion is the popular term used to refer to what is now called "low energy nuclear reactions" , part of the field of "condensed matter nuclear science" .
	Cold War The Cold War was the protracted geopolitics, ideology, and economics struggle that emerged after World War II between democracy and communism, centering around the global superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, and their military alliance partners.
	Cold-blooded Cold-blooded organisms maintain their body temperatures in ways different from mammals and birds. The term is now archaic in scientific contexts. Cold-blooded creatures were, initially, presumed to be incapable of maintaining their body temperatures at all. They were presumed to be "slaves" to their environments.
	Cole Porter Cole Albert Porter was an United States composer and songwriter from Indiana. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "I've Got You Under My Skin ".
	Coleman Hawkins Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz Tenor saxophone. Hawkins was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1904. Some out-of-date sources say 1901, but there is no evidence to prove such an early date. He was named Coleman after his mother Cordelia's maiden name.
	Coleonyx Coleonyx is a genus of terrestrial geckos commonly referred to as banded geckos. They are found throughout the southwestern United States, Mexico and south into Central America. They are relatively small lizards, measuring about 5-6 inches in length. They nocturnal and are found primarily in dry, rocky habitats.
	Coleslaw Coleslaw is a salad consisting primarily and minimally of shredded, raw, white cabbage, although it often also includes shredded carrots. There are many variations of the recipe which include the addition of other ingredients, such as red cabbage, pineapple, or apple. It is usually mixed with a dressing which traditionally consists of or is based on vegetable oil and vinegar or a vinaigrette.
	Colette Colette was the pen name of the France novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette .
	Coleus Coleus is a genus of perennial plants, native to tropical Africa and Asia. The name Coleus derives from an earlier classification under the scientific name Coleus, though the currently accepted classification is in the genus Solenostemon.
	Colima Colima is a state in western Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima, Colima. Colima is a small state, sharing a border with the Mexican states of Jalisco to the north and east, and Michoacn to the south. To the west Colima borders the Pacific Ocean.
	Colin Powell General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving from January 20, 2001 to January 23, 2005 under President of the United States George W. Bush. Nominated by Bush on December 16, 2000 and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate, Powell became the third highest ranking non-Caucasian government official in the history of the United States behind only Supreme court justices Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas .
	Collagen Collagen is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 40% of the total. It is one of the long, fibrous protein whose functions are quite different from those of globular proteins such as enzymes.
	Collard greens Collards, also called collard greens or borekale, are various loose-leafed cultivars of the cabbage plant. The plant is grown for its large, dark-colored, greens and as a garden ornamental, mainly in Brazil, Portugal, the Southern United States, many parts of Africa, Montenegro, Spain and in Kashmir as well.
	Collared Peccary Collared Peccary, Tayassu tajacu, is a peccary species found in North America, Central America and South America, living in many habitats, from dry, Sonoran desert and chaco to deep rainforest. They are commonly referred to as Javelina, although this term is also used to describe the other two species of peccary
	Collation In textual criticism and bibliography, collation is the reading of two texts side-by-side in order to note their differences. In printing and photocopying, collation is the arrangement of pages in order when several copies of a document are bookbinding after printing or copying.
	Collected Collected is a "best of" album by Massive Attack, released on 27 March 2006. The album was preceded by the release of the single "Live With Me" on 13 March.
	Collecting The hobby of collecting consists of acquiring specific items based on a particular interest of the collector. These collections of things are often highly organized, carefully cataloged, and attractively displayed. Since collecting depends on the interests of the individual collector, it may deal with almost any subject.
	College College is a term most often used today to denote an educational institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of colleagues . Originally it meant a group of person living together under a common set of law ; indeed, some colleges call their members "fellows".
	Collet A collet is a holding device that forms a collar around the object to be held and exerts a strong clamping force on the object when it is tightened. It may be used to hold a workpiece or a tool. Collets generally have a narrow clamping range which means a large number are required to hold a given range of materials, unlike a chuck that will generally cover the full range that the machine is designed for.
	Collide Collide is an industrial rock/darkwave band founded in 1992, in Los Angeles, California, USA, that has incorporated elements of trip hop and techno into their sound. The name comes from the collision of musical styles - primarily the ethereal vocals provided by kaRIN and the electronic music provided by Statik.
	Collie Collie refers to various breeds of herding dog originating primarily in Scotland. The exact origin of the name is uncertain, although it probably originates in Early Scots col(l), meaning black. Another explanation sometimes put forward is that collie was a regional word for "something useful".
	Collimator In neutron radiation, X-ray and gamma ray optics, a collimator is a device that filters a stream of rays so that only those travelling parallel to a specified direction are allowed through. Collimators are used in neutron, X- and gamma-ray optics because it is not yet possible to focus radiation with such short wavelengths into an image with lenses as is routine with electromagnetic radiation at optical or near-optical wavelengths.
	Collinsia Collinsia is a genus of about 25 species of annual plant flowering plants, consisting of the Blue-eyed Marys and the Chinese Houses. It was traditionally placed in the snapdragon family Scrophulariaceae, but following recent research in molecular genetics, it has now been placed in a much enlarged family Plantaginaceae.
	Collinsia heterophylla Collinsia heterophylla is a flowering plant native to California and Baja California. It is known as Purple Chinese Houses or Innocence. Like the other species in the genus Collinsia, which also includes the Blue-eyed Marys, it gets its name from its towers of inflorescences, of decreasing diameter, which give the plants in full flower a certain resemblance to a pagoda.
	Collinsonia canadensis Collinsonia canadensis is a perennial medicinal herb. Common names include Canada Horsebalm, Richweed, and Stone root.
	Collision Physical collision
	Collision Course Collision Course is a Compact disc/DVD set released on November 30, 2004 by Jay-Z & Linkin Park. The CD contains six tracks, bastard pops between songs by both artists. The DVD contains special behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the album, as well as the entire live concert performed at The Roxy Theatre on July 18, 2004.
	Colocasia Colocasia is a genus of six to eight species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical Polynesia and southeastern Asia. Common names include Taro, and colloquially, "Elephant-ear", this name also used for some other large-leaved genera in the Araceae, notably Xanthosoma and Caladium.
	Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than 12 million inhabitants.
	Colombia The Republic of Colombia , is the northwesternmost country of South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru, to the North by the Atlantic Ocean and to the west by Panama and the Pacific Ocean.
	Colômbia * For the country, see ColombiaCol?mbia (Portuguese language for Colombia) is a municipality in the northern part of the state of S?o Paulo (state) in Brazil. The population in 2003 is 6,299 and the area is 731.46 km? The elevation is 492 m.
	Colombian peso The peso is the currency of the Colombia. Its ISO 4217 code is COP and it is also informally abbreviated as COL$. Its sign is the peso symbol.
	Colombo Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, located on the southwest coast adjacent to the present administrative capital of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. The name Colombo is derived from Sinhala name Kola-amba-thota which means "harbour with leafy mango trees".
	Colonel Blimp The cartoonist David Low first drew Colonel Blimp for Max Aitken 's Evening Standard in the 1930s: pompous, irascible, jingoistic and stereotype English. "Gad, Sir", Blimp would proclaim, wrapped in his towel and brandishing some mundane weapon to emphasise his passion and complacency on some issue of current affairs.
	Colonialism See colony and colonisation for examples of colonialism which do not refer to Western colonialism. Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler colony or administration dependencies in which indigenous populations are direct rule or Population transfers.
	Colonnade In classical architecture, a colonnade denotes a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, as in the famous elliptically curving colonnades that Bernini added to the facade of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, which embrace and define the Piazza.
	Colonoscopy Colonoscopy is the minimally invasive procedure endoscopy examination of the large Colon and the distal part of the ileum with a fiber optic camera on a flexible tube passed through the anus. It may provide a visual diagnosis and grants the opportunity for biopsy of suspected lesions.
	Colony In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically separate countries, while others were territories without definite statehood at the moment of colonization.
	Color Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, white, etc. Color derives from the spectrum of light interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra.
	Color blindness Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, in humans is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals.
	Color circle A color circle is a way of representing the visible spectrum in a circular form, with colors arranged in sequence around the circumference in order of spectral frequency. Analogous to the use of a color theory in art, the color circle performs a different purpose, as it is a psychophysics tool used in the exploration of visual perception, its anomalies and optical illusions connected with color vision.
	Color code A color code is a system for displaying information by using different colors. Color codes are often difficult or impossible for color blindness people to understand. Examples of color codes: * The Color Code is the title of a book combined with a nutritional practice by the same name in another book publication .
	Color guard In the US military and other similar organizations, the Color guard carries the Colours, standards and guidons#United_States and other flag appropriate to its position in the chain of command. Typically these include a Military unit flag and a departmental flag .
	Color Line Color Line AS is the largest cruiseferry liner operating on routes to and from Norway. The company is also one of the leading operators in Europe. Color Line provides transportation solutions for people and cargo, hotel accommodation, shopping, restaurants and entertainment.
	Color vision Color vision is the capacity of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelength of the light they reflect or emit. In animals, the nervous system derives color by comparing the responses to light from the several types of Cone cell in the eye.
	Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state in the western United States. Denver, Colorado is the capital and largest city. As of 2000, the state's population was 4,301,261. The state is in the Mountain states, Southwestern United States and Central United States regions of the country.
	Colorado Desert The Colorado Desert is a large arid depression in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California and the northeastern portion of the Mexican state of Baja California. It encompasses approximately 2,500 sq mi east of Los Angeles, California and San Diego, California, extending from the San Bernardino Mountains east and southeast to the Colorado River, from which it takes its name.
	Colorado Plateau The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado Plateaus Province, is a United States physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. The province covers an area of 130,000 square miles within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southeastern Utah, and northern Arizona.
	Colorado potato beetle The Colorado potato beetle is an important pest of potato crops. It is approximately 10 millimetre long, with a bright yellow/orange body and 5 bold brown stripes along the length of each of its elytron, and it can easily be confused with its close cousin and look-alike, the false potato beetle.
	Colorado River The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The natural course of the river flows into the Gulf of California, but the heavy use of the river as an irrigation source for Imperial Valley has desiccation the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer consistently reaches the sea.
	Colorful is a 16-episode anime directed by Ryutaro Nakamura and based on the manga by Torajirou Kishi. The episodes are made up of Vignette#Literature typically involving men and teenage boys attempting to Panchira and/or look down their blouses.
	Colosseum The Colosseum or Coliseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre , is the largest amphitheatre built in the Roman Empire. Originally capable of seating 50,000 spectators, it was used for gladiatorial combat. It was built in the 70s and completed in 80 AD.
	Colossus of Rhodes The Colossus of Rhodes was a giant statue of the God Helios, erected on the Greece island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos, a pupil of Lysippos, between 292 BC and 280 BC. It was roughly the same size as the Statue of Liberty in New York City, although it stood on a lower platform.
	Coltsfoot Coltsfoot or Tussilago farfara is a plant in the family Asteraceae. It has been used medicinally as a cough suppressant. The name "tussilago" itself means "cough suppressant." The plant has been used since at least historical times to treat lung ailments such as asthma as well as various coughs by way of smoking.
	Coluber Coluber is a genus of thin bodied, fast moving, colubrid snakes commonly known as racer. They are widespread around the world and vary greatly in habitat and behaviour. In the past, Coluber was a catch-all genus which included almost all snake species known at the time.
	Coluber constrictor Coluber constrictor is a species of non-venomous snake, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as the eastern racers. They are primarily found throughout the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains, but they range north into Canada, and south into Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.
	Coluber constrictor flaviventris The Eastern Yellowbelly Racer is a subspecies of racer, a non-venom, colubrid snake.
	Colubrid A Colubrid is a snake that is a member of the Colubridae family. It is a broad classification of snakes that includes well over half of all snake species on earth. While most colubrids are non-venomous and are normally harmless, a few groups, such as genus Boiga, Coluber and Rhabdophis, can produce medically significant bites.
	Colubrina Colubrina is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia, northern Australia, and the Indian Ocean islands. Common names include nakedwood, snakewood, greenheart and hogplum.
	Colugo Colugos are arboreal gliding mammals found in South-east Asia. There are just two species each in its own genus, which makes up the entire family Cynocephalidae and order Dermoptera. Though they are the most capable of all mammal gliders, they can not actually fly.
	Columba Saint Columba is sometimes referred to as Columba of Iona, or, in Old Irish, as Saint Colm Cille or Columcille . He was the outstanding figure among the Gaels missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages.
	Columbarium A columbarium is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns. The term comes from the Latin columba and originally referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons, an example of which dating back to 1600 can be seen at Compton Martin . The Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas is a particularly fine ancient Roman example, on the Via Appia, rich in frescoes, decorations and precious mosaics.
	Columbia River The Columbia River is a river situated in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It is the largest river in volume flowing into the Pacific Ocean from the Western Hemisphere, and is the second largest by volume in North America behind the Mississippi River.
	Columbia University Columbia University is a private university university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is one of the eight Ivy League universities. The institution was established in 1754 as King's College and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States.