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  • candle-berry
      [W3 different sp.] n. a shrub, Byrsonima cuneata: 1920 (Britton 205). = GUANA BERRY (Exuma, Mayag.)
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  • can cream, cream
    [cf. US can tin] n. evaporated or condensed milk: 1978 One-half pint can cream . . a small tin of cream (Higgs 14,
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  • cancer-tree, cancer-bush, cancer-plant
    [cf. SA cancer-bush different sp.] n. a shrub, Jacaranda coerulea: 1889 Cancer plant (Gardner 397). 1978 Cancer bush . . used
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  • can
    [origin popularly thought to lie in the earlier use of tin cans as drinking cups by the poor, but cf. Scots can
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  • camp
    (Gen.); campus (Andros) [cf. Sra. kampoe hut, forest camp WST; MCC kyamp idem; DAE camp temporary quarters used when hunting, engaged in lumbering,
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  • camally
     /kamáli/ (Black); camoley /kamówli/ (San Sal.) [etym?] n. usually carnally bump: a swelling on the head caused by a blow: He gone
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  • camallamee
    See GUM-ELEMI.
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  • calm head
    [cf. Scots calm smooth, even CSD] n. a head characterized by a broad forehead and a receding hairline with scant
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  • call
    v. to say or speak, as in the idioms: call sign [W3 letters identifying a radio transmit­ter; perhaps from naval usage
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  • calalu, callalou
    /kálaluw/ [Car.; probably of Amerindian origin and borrowed into coastal African languages via 18th century creole Eng.; now obs. in
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