418 A COMPENDIUM OF 
Cespitose—ses’ -pi-toz (Lat. cespes, turf, turfy). 
Plants that have a turf like root. 
Cestoid—ses’-toyd (Gr. estos, a girdle, ezdos, 
form). Like a girdle; intestinal worms, with 
long, flat bodies. Example: tape worms. 
Cetaceous—se-ta’-shus (Gr. etos; Lat. cetus, 
a whale). Pertaining to whales. 
Chaff—chaf (Dutch keffen; Gr. kaff, to bark, to 
hull; idle winds, etc.; to chatter, to talk). 
The hull of oats, wheat, etc. 
Chalza—ka-la’-za, sometimes Chalaze (Gr. 
chalaza, a small knob or tubercle). The point 
or scar where the vessels of nutrition enter 
the nucleus of the ovule, or seed. 
Chalybeate—ka-lib’-i-at (Lat. chalybs; Gr. cha- 
lups, very hard iron). A medicine or water 
containing iron in solution. 
Charlatan—shar’-la-tan (Spanish charlar, to 
chatter; Italian char/atano, a quack doctor). 
A pretender; one who pretends to do more 
than he can. 
Chartaceous—shar-ta’-shus (Lat. charta; Gr. 
chartes, paper). Any plant or leaf flexible and 
thin like paper. 
Chemistry—kem’-is-tri (Arabic simia, the oc- 
cult art; Gr. chumos, juice). The science 
which ascertains the nature of all bodies and 
their radicals. Organic chemistry treats of 
the structure of all animal and vegetable sub- 
stances, 
Chlorophyll—klo’-ro-fil (Gr. chloros, grass 
green; and phullon, aleaf), The green col- 
ing matter in plants and leaves. 
Cholagogue—kol’-a-gog (Gr. hole, bile, and 
agogos, a leader). Any medicine which acts 
