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{ Car`y*at"ic (?), Car`y*at"id (?), }
a. Of or pertaining to a
caryatid.

Car`y*at"id (?), n.; pl.
Caryatids (#). [See Caryatides.]
(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an
entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

||Car`y*at"i*des (?), n. pl. [L.,
fr. Gr. &?; (&?;) priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek
Artemis) at Caryæ (Gr. &?;), a village in Laconia; as an
architectural term, caryatids.] (Arch)
Caryatids.

&fist; Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes,
Telamones, and Persians.

Car`y*o*phyl*la"ceous (?), a. [Gr.
&?; clove tree; &?; nut + &?; leaf.] (Bot.)
(a) Having corollas of five petals with long
claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.
(b) Belonging to the family of which the
pink and the carnation are the types.

Car`y*oph"yl*lin (?), n.
(Chem.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline
substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common
camphor.

Car`y*oph"yl*lous (?), a.
Caryophyllaceous.


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