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Meaning Of Calcar

  1. n.
    A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
  2. n.
    A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
  3. n.
    A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
  4. n.
    A spur, or spurlike prominence.
  5. n.
    A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.



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