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calcar |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Calcar \Cal"car\, n. [L. calcaria lime kiln, fr calx, calcis, lime. See {Calx}.] (Glass manuf.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. --Ure. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Calcar \Cal"car\, n.; L. pl {Calcaria}. [L., a spur, as worn on the heel, also the spur of a cock, fr calx, calcis, the heel.] 1. (Bot.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. 2. (Zo["o]l.) 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also {sea horse}. Note: They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail. The male has a ventral pouch, in which it carries the eggs till hatched. 3. (Zo["o]l.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also {ergot} and {calcar}.
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