calli-, cali-, callo-, calo-, kalli-, kali-, kalo-, kaleido- +

(Greek: kalos, beautiful)


callinebephile, callinebephilist
A collector of nibs or quill pens (a nib refers to the point of a quill pen) or the collecting of fountain-pen points.
calliope
1. A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard.
2. In Greek mythology, when capitalized, Calliope was a Muse of epic poetry.
Calliope (kuh LIGH uh pee)
Chief of the Muses. She was the Muse of heroic poetry and eloquence.
calliophone
A type of calliope music operating with air pressure. Based on calliope plus -phone.

The calliope was known as a steam organ, a musical instrument consisting of a set of steam whistles that were activated by a keyboard.

In classical mythology, Kalliope was the muse of heroic poetry. Etymologically, her name came from calli-, "beautiful" plus op, "voice" plus the feminine ending -e.

calliopsis
A North American annual plant (Coreopsis tinctoria) widely cultivated for its beautiful showy flower heads with yellow rays and purple-red to brownish centers.
callipedia
The desire to bear a beautiful child.
calliphony
Beautiful sound.
callipygian
1. A reference to or having finely developed buttocks or rear end.
2. Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.
Callipygian Venus
Venus, thought to be more beautiful than any mortal woman, is a sculpture called “Callipygian,” meaning “of the beautiful buttocks.” The late Hellenistic original once stood at the center of a pool in Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome.
Callipygian Venus statue
callipygous
Pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks.
callipygy, callipygia
Having "beautiful" or sexy buttocks or a reference to such.
callomania, callomaniac
1. A pathologic attraction to people or objects because of their beauty alone, without regard for other qualities.
2. The delusion by someone who thinks that she (or he) is beautiful.
Fat woman views herself in a mirror as young and beautiful.
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calotype, callotype, talbotype
1. A 19th-century photographic process producing a negative on a plate wet with silver iodide.
2. An early photograph produced by the calotype process.

An early photographic process introduced in 1841 by Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide.

The term calotype came from the Greek κάλο for "beautiful, good", and τύπος for "impression, form".

dyscalligynia
Antipathy for, or hatred of, beautiful women.
Hemerocallis
1. Any of several perennial Eurasian herbs of the genus Hemerocallis in the lily family, often having grasslike leaves and yellow, orange, or purplish lilylike flowers.
2. East Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: "day lilies"; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae.
3. From Greek, hemera, "day" plus kallos, "beauty".

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