cardinal : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a major drainage channel from the cephalic part of the body
  

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• noun tall erect and very leafy perennial herb of eastern North America having dense spikes of blue flowers
  great lobelia; Lobelia siphilitica.
  

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• noun Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621)
  Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine; Bellarmine; Bellarmino.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an American song bird (Cardinalis cardinalis, or C. Virginianus), of the family Fringillidæ, or finches having a bright red plumage, and a high, pointed crest on its head. The males have loud and musical notes resembling those of a fife. Other related species are also called cardinal birds.

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• noun one of the four main compass points
  

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• noun North American lobelia having brilliant red flowers
  Lobelia cardinalis; Indian pink.
  

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• (Bot.), an herbaceous plant (Lobelia cardinalis) bearing brilliant red flowers of much beauty.

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• noun crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
  Cardinalis cardinalis; Richmondena Cardinalis; cardinal; redbird.
  

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• noun English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
  Newman; John Henry Newman.
  

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• noun the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
  cardinal number; cardinal.
  

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• noun the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
  cardinal number; cardinal.
  

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• the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called ordinal numbers.

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• (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir.

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• color like that of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc.; a bright red, darket than scarlet, and between scarlet and crimson.

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• noun French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)
  Richelieu; Armand Jean du Plessis; Duc de Richelieu.
  

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• (Astron.) Aries, Lidra, Cancer, and Capricorn.

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• (Zoöl.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See Bivalve.

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• noun small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Colombia
  Paracheirodon axelrodi.
  

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• noun any of the major venous channels in primitive adult vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates
  cardinal vein.
  

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• noun any of the major venous channels in primitive adult vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates
  cardinal vein.
  

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• (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes.

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• noun one of the seven preeminent virtues
  cardinal virtue.
  

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• noun one of the seven preeminent virtues
  cardinal virtue.
  

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• preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.

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• winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.

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• noun (Roman Catholic Church) the body of cardinals who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
  Sacred College.
  

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• noun the major return channels to the heart; formed by anastomosis of the anterior and posterior cardinal veins
  

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• noun a major drainage channel from the caudal part of the body
  

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