Glossary · Adjectives · C
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CathemeraladjectiveDescribing an organism or a behavior that happens irregularly with regards to time of day, as opposed to diurnal, nocturnal, or crepuscular.candidate
Caudaladjectivesituated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arisescandidate
Cavernousadjectivefilled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with bloodcandidate
Cellularadjectivecharacterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization)candidate
Cenobiticadjectiveof or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal livingcandidate
Cenobiticaladjectiveof or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal livingcandidate
Centeradjectiveof or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectuallycandidate
Centigradeadjectiveof or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degreescandidate
Central AmericanadjectiveMWEof or relating to or characteristic of Central America or its people or languagescandidate
Centralisedadjectivedrawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authoritycandidate
Centralizedadjectivedrawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authoritycandidate
Centreadjectiveof or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectuallycandidate
Centripetaladjectiveof a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous systemcandidate
Centristadjectivesupporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservativecandidate
Centromericadjectivepertaining to the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosiscandidate
Centrosymmetricadjectivehaving a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central pointcandidate