These are the meanings of the letters CALCINADA when you unscramble them.
- Acacia (n.)
A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.
- Acacia (n.)
A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
- Acacia (n.)
The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.
- Alcaic (a.)
Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.
- Alcaic (n.)
A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.
- Cicada (n.)
Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.
- Cicala (n.)
A cicada. See Cicada.