kalmia
<botany> A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers.
kalmuck
1. <ethnology> See Calmucks.
kalong
<zoology> A fruit bat, especially. The Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
kalpa
One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. at the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.
kamala
<botany> The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk (more...)
kames
Mounds of poorly sorted glacial drift, mostly sand and gravel, deposited near the front of a glacier.
kamichi
<ornithology> A curious South American bird (Anhima, or Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and (more...)
kamptulicon
A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.
kampylite
<chemical> A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow.
kamtschadales
<ethnology> An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of Kamtschatka.
