Word Meaning

Meaning of calcar

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