calcar

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for calcar

calcar 🔊

calcar : දීර්ඝාව

calcar definition

Noun.

  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.