Coburg
the name of a family in Germany, dating from the 5th century, noted for intermarriages with royal houses, especially during the 19th century. A sister of Duke Ernest I. became Duchess of Kent and mother of Queen Victoria; ; the duke's brother Leopold became King of the Belgians, and married in succession daughters of George IV. of England and of Louis Philippe; one of his nephews, Ferdinand, married the Queen of Portugal, and was regent of that kingdom, 1853; another, puis August, married a daughter of Louis Philippe; one of his sons, Duke Ernest II., declined the crown of Greece, 1863, and another, Prince Albert, was the hus band of his cousin, Queen Victoria, of England.
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Coburg Peninsula
a peninsula on the N. coast of Australia in the northern territory of South Australia.
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Coburn
FOSTER DWIGHT, an American agriculturalist and public official, born in Jefferson co., Wis., in 1846. He was educated in the common schools. After serving in the Civil War he became a farmer and stock raiser in Franklin co., Kan. In 1882 he was secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture and from 1894 to 1914 was editor of the Kansas City "Live-Stock Indicator." He was chief of the department of live stock at the St. Louis Exposition and was for many years a regent of the State Agricultural College. He was one of the foremost authorities in agricultural matters in the United States. In 1906 he was appointed United States Senator from Kansas, but declined the appointment. He served as chairman of the Draft Appeal Board of the 1st district of Kansas, in 1917. His works include: "Swine Husbandry"; "The Book of Alfalfa"; "Swine in America," and over 30 volumes on agriculture published by the State of Kansas.
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Cobweb
the web or network spun by spiders to catch their prey.
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Cocco
COCO ROOT, or EDDOES, (plants of the genus Colocasia, and of the (nearly allied genus Caladium, of the order Araceæ, widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries for their (edible starchy root-stocks, of which the food value broadly corresponds to the potato. They are sometimes included under the name Yam, but are totally different from the true yam. The names more strictly belong to Colocasia antiquorum, a stemless plant with ovate leaves, and flowers inclosed in a cylindri- cylindrical erect spathe. This is a native of India, but was early introduced to Egypt and the Mediterranean countries, whence it has now passed even to America. C. esculenta, C. macrorhiza, or tara, and C. Himalensis are also of economic importance in different parts of the world.
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Coccoloba
a genus of plants, order Polygonacea. C. uvifera is the seaside grape, which grows on the shores of the West Indian Islands, Bermuda, and on the American continent. It has large glossy green leaves with red veins. The berries are eatable. It is an evergreen. The wood is used for cabinet work. A red coloring matter in it is employed as a dye. The wood, leaves, and bark are astringent, and a decoction of them evaporated forms Jamaica Kino.
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Coccomilia
a kind of plum growing in Calabria, the bark of which-especially of the root is highly esteemed by the Neapolitan faculty for its virtues in intermittent fever. genus of fossil
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Coccosteus
a placoganoid fishes, pertaining chiefly to the Devonian and Old Red Sandstone system, but met with also in Silurian strata. The head was protected by a great shield covered with tubercles. Be sides this bony cuirass there was also a ventral shield, but the rest of the body was naked. The mouth was furnished with small teeth.
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Cocculus
a genus of plants, order Menispermaceæ. In general the species are bitter febrifuges. C. crispus, a twining species with tubercles or warts on the stem, found in Sumatra and the Molucca Islands, is used by the Malays in intermittent fevers. The root of what was formerly called C. palmatus, but is now designated Jateorhiza palmata, found in Mozambique and Oibo, is the calumba-root of commerce, from which a bitter is obtained.rection of the fresh roots of C. villosus is administered by the Hindus in rheumatism and old venereal complaints. An ink is made from its fruit. In Arabia a spirit is distilled from the acrid berries of C. Cebatha.
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Cocculus Indicus
a popular name given to a species of Menispermaceæ, which furnishes certain dried berries constituting an article of commerce. They are imported from the East Indies. There is no botanical species with this exact name. The drupe resembles a round berry, the size of a pea or larger, wrinkled externally, and with a brittle husk. The kernel is intensely bitter. It contains about one-fiftieth of its weight of a powerful bitter narcotic poison called picrotoxin. C. indicus is a deadly poison, is used to give a bitter taste to beer, and is thrown into rivers to kill the fish. It has been used in form of ointment in certain skin diseases. They are commonly known in the United States as fish-berries.
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Coccus
the typical genus of the family Coccidæ. Many species are hurtt ful to plants in greenhouses and elsewhere. Ga Gardeners call them bugs. C. adonidum (the mealy bug) does damage in hothouses, as does C. testudo. C. vitis (the vine-scale) injures vines, and C. hesperidum oranges. Others, however, are of value as dyes. C. Cacti, found on the cactuses, is the cochineal insect. C. Ilicis, found on quercus coccifera, an evergreen oak in the S. of France, furnishes a crimson dye which has long been known to mankind. C. polonicus is used by the Turks as a red dye. C. lacca yields lac.
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Coccyx
the lowermost portion of the vertebral column, consisting of four, or more rarely five or three, divided terminal vertebræ, which become more or less united into one with the advance of age. They have been called united vertebræ.
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Cochabamba
a central department of Bolivia, with offshoots of the Eastern Cordilleras, and extensive plateaus. The climate is equable and healthy, and 1 though poor in metals, its fertile valleys render it the richest as well as the most picturesque district of the republic. Agriculture and cattle-raising are the chief occupations. Area, 21,430 square miles; pop. about 730,000. The capital, Cochabamba (3,396 feet above the sea), on a tributary of the Guapay, was founded in 1565, as Ciudad de Oropesa.
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