California


Definition: Meaning of, California in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˌkalɪˈfɔːnɪə /

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  1. a state in the southwest of the US, next to the Pacific Ocean, whose main cities include San Francisco and Los Angeles
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California used in phrases

  • Baja California
    1. a PENINSULA (= long thin piece of land) in Mexico that is connected to southern California and goes into the Pacific Ocean
  • California Institute of Technology
  • California Personality Inventory (noun)
    1. a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.
  • California allspice (noun)
    1. straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers
  • California bay tree (noun)
    1. pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
  • California beauty (noun)
    1. any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
  • California black oak (noun)
    1. large deciduous tree of the Pacific coast having deeply parted bristle-tipped leaves
  • California black walnut (noun)
    1. medium-sized tree with somewhat aromatic compound leaves and edible nuts
  • California bluebell (noun)
    1. desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes
    2. annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers
  • California box elder (noun)
    1. maple of the Pacific coast of the United States; fruits are white when mature
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