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Cantharides—kan-thar’-i-dez (Gr. kantharts, a 
kind of beetle). Spanish flies. So called 
from the brown color. 
Caoutchouc — ko’-chook (a native Indian 
word). India rubber, the dried juice of va- 
rious tropical plants. Nat. order, Euphor- 
biacez. 
Capillary—kap’-il-ler-i (Lat. capz//us, a hair). 
Resembling a hair in minuteness; delicate 
tubes or fibres through which pass moisture. 
Capitulum—ka-pit’-u-lum (Lat. capitulum, a 
little head). A flower composed of a number 
of flowerets arranged without stems on the 
top of a single flower-stalk. Example: clo- 
ver. 
Capreolate—kap’-re-o-lat (Lat. capreolus, a 
tendril of a vine, a wild goat), Having ten- 
drils. 
Capsicum—kad’-si-kum (Lat. capsicum, from 
capsa, a box, achest; red or Cayenne pepper). 
Capsicum annuum, capsicum fastigiatum. 
Nat. order, Solanacez. 
Capsule—kap’-sul Lat. capsula, (alittle chest). 
The vessel or cavity in which a seed is en- 
closed. Example: poppy-head. 
Capsular—kap’-su-lar. A hollow; full of cells, 
Carminative—kar’-min-a-tiv (Italian, from car- 
minare, to card wool, to break up humors). 
Medicine that has a warming sense after be- 
ing swallowed; to expel wind and cure flatu- 
lence. 
Carpel—kar-pel (Gr. karpos, fruit). One of 
the parts composing the innermost sets of the 
floral envelope by which the complete flower 
is separable. 
