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CAULIFLOWERS

Volume 4 · 52 words · 1797 Edition

in gardening, a much esteemed species of cabbage. See Brassica.

CAURIS, in natural history, a name given by some to the genus of shells called, by the generality of writers, porcellana, and concha veneris. It is from a false pronunciation of this word cauris that we call these shells cowries. See Porcelain-Shell.