Meaning of 'calcar'

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Meaning of ‘calcar’

4 definitions found.

calcar

A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.

(Bot.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

(Zoöl.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

(Anat.) (a) A spur, or spurlike prominence. (b) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University

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