French Words: C
257,141 words · Page 379 of 5143
Nom historique du bornéol, il est fabriqué par synthèse ou extrait du Dryobalanops camphora, un grand arbre de la famille des Dipterocarpaceae, qui se rencontre dans les îles de Sumatra, Bornéo, etc.
Grand arbre laurifolié (Cinnamomum camphora), originaire d’Asie orientale, à feuilles persistantes, coriaces et trinerves, dégageant une forte odeur de camphre lorsqu’on froisse ses feuilles ou son écorce, dont le bois et les feuilles fournissent ce composé en forte proportion — caractère qui le distingue des autres espèces du genre Cinnamomum, souvent plus petites, à parfum épicé ou cannelle.
Produit volatil qu’on obtient en faisant passer de la vapeur de camphre sur de la chaux chauffée au rouge.
Animal imaginaire, âne sauvage ayant une seule corne au milieu du font et qui vivrait en Arabie.
Nom donné à trois monoterpènes bicycliques, mono-insaturés isomères du pinène. On le retrouve dans l’essence de bergamote (Citrus bergamia), le camphre, le sapin de Sibérie (Abies sibirica), le romarin officinal (Salvia rosmarinus).
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French alphabetical index for the letter C contains 257,141 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 5,143 pages, and you are currently viewing page 379. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented French headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "C" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.