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To lengthen to extend to stretch as to elongate a line...
Buffel duck
A small duck Charitonetta albeola the spirit duck or butterball The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers and thus appears large Called also bufflehead...
Bulimus
A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell often of large size The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America...
Cannelure
A groove in any cylinder specif a groove around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling Also a groove around the base of a cartridge where the extractor takes hold...
Cantharis
A beetle Lytta vesicatoria syn Cantharis vesicatoria having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color and a nauseous odor the blister fly or blister beetle of the apothecary also called Spanish fly Many other species of Lytta used for the same purpose take the same name See Blister beetle under Blister The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine...
Cestidae
A family of invertebrates coextensive with the order Cestida ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body...
Cheiroptera
An earlier spelling for Chiroptera an order of Mammalia including the bats having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web so that they can be used like wings in flying See Chiroptera and Bat...
Chilopoda
One of the orders of myriapods including the centipedes They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment well developed jaws and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs They are insectivorous very active and some species grow to the length of a foot...
chiroptera
an ancient order of mammalia dating to the early Eocene including the bats They are nocturnal mouselike mammals having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web so that they form membranous wings that can be used in flying They also have anatomical adaptations including large ears for echolocation by which they navigate and in some cases find insects The order includes the suborders Megachiroptera the fruit bats and Microchiroptera insectivorous bats See Bat Previously spelled cheiroptera...
Cochlea
An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals See Ear...
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