calcar
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A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.
A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. 2. (Zoöl.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. 3. (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.
Definition: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.
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