camaran.1
/ˈkamərə/ Botany.
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a. A membranous fruit composed of two united valves and enclosing one or many seeds attached to the internal angle (Littré, and New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
b. One of the cells of a fruit.
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1880 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) 400 Camara and its diminutive Camerula (chamber) are sometimes used for the cells of a fruit.
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c. A carpel ( Treasury Bot. 1866).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
camaran.2
/ˈkamərə/ ‘A hard durable timber obtained from Dipteryx odorata’ (family Leguminosæ). Treasury Bot. 1866.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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n.2- cool as ice
- cool bag
- cool beans
- cool box
- cool breeze
- cool britannia
- cool cat
- cool chamber
- cool cold as a cucumber
- cool cup
- cool customer
- cool hunter
- cool it
- cool of wind
- cool off
- cool one
- cool one's chaffer
- cool one's coppers
- cool one's feet
- cool one's heels
- cool one's hooves
- cool one's jets
- cool one's toes
- cool or clear one's coppers
- counter-mount