meaning of calcar
1. A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
2. A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
3. A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
4. A spur, or spurlike prominence.
5. A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
Related Words
calcar | calcarate | calcarated | calcareo-argillaceous | calcareo-bituminous | calcareo-siliceous | calcareous | calcareousness | calcaria | calcariferous | calcarine | calcarine fissure | calcarine sulcus |
