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CORY
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Corey.
Female
English
English variant spelling of French Corinne, CORYNN means "maiden."
Boy/Male
English, Greek
Wears a Helmet; Ready for Battle or War
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English, Greek
Ready for Battle; War
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name probably from Curriton or Coryton in Devon; the former is named with an Old English personal name Curra + Old English tūn ‘settlement’; the second is from Curi (a lost Celtic river name) + tūn.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English, Greek, Irish
Dweller Near a Hollow; From the Round Hill; Seething Pool; Ravine; The Hollow
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Coudrai in Seine-Maritime, France, or Coudray in Eure, France, or from Cowdray or Cowdry in Sussex, England. The latter was probably named after one of the places in France. All are named with Old French coudraie ‘hazel copse’ (a collective noun from coudre ‘hazelnut tree’, Late Latin colurus, a metathesized form of classical Latin corylus, from Greek korylos).
Boy/Male
Scottish American Irish English
Seething pool.
Girl/Female
English Irish American
from the round hill; seething pool; ravine.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Corey, possibly CORY means "deep hollow, ravine."
Boy/Male
English
Wears a helmet.
Boy/Male
Greek
Priest of Rhea.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places in northern England. Those in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are named with the Old Norse personal name Kori (see Cory) + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’, whereas the one in Cumbria has as its first element the Old Irish personal name Corc.French : from a diminutive of corb ‘crow’.Irish : variant of Corboy.
Boy/Male
Greek English
Ready to fight.
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n.
An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.
a.
Corymbose.
pl.
of Corypheus
n.
The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera.
n.
A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2)
n.
Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
pl.
of Corypheus
n.
One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
n.
A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
n.
An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed.
adv.
In corymbs.
a.
Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.
pl.
of Corybant
a.
Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin.
a.
Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.
pl.
of Corybant
n.
A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.