calico

1. 1. A coarse, brightly printed cloth.
   2. Chiefly British. A plain white cotton cloth, heavier than muslin.
2. An animal, such as a cat, having a coat that is mottled in tones of white with red and black.

[After CALICUT.]

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: coarse cloth with a bright print

The adjective calico has one meaning:

Meaning #1: made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned
  Pertains to noun: calico (meaning #1)

Contents 1 Textiles 2 Animals 3 Business 4 Education 5 People 6 Places 7 Other

Calico may refer to:

Textiles

• Calico (fabric), a plain-woven cotton textile from Mexico City

Animals

• Calico cat, Calico or Tortoiseshell is a common coloration for domestic cats
• Calico goldfish, goldfish that sports a type of metallic and transparent scales

Business

• Calico Light Weapons Systems, a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon
• Calico Liberty, a roller-delayed blowback-operated semi-automatic rifle or pistol
  • Calico M100, a blowback operated semi-automatic rifle/carbine (M100)
  • Calico M100P, a semi-automatic pistol
  • Calico M960, 9mm semi-automatic gun

Education

• CALICO (consortium), American consortium

People

• Calico Cooper (born 1981), American actress and the daughter of rock and roll musician Alice Cooper
• Calico Jack Rackham (died 1720), English pirate captain in the early 18th century
• Tyrone Calico (born 1980), American football wide receiver
• Calico aka Skaddy (born in the '80s), Jamaican entertainer/DJ with witty, conscious lyrics and a powerful voice. His music crosses several generes ranging from reggae, dancehall, hip hop, soca, jazz and techno.

Places

• Calico Mountains (California), just north of Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert, California
  • Calico, California, a ghost town in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California
  • Calico and Odessa Railroad, a heritage railway in the ghost town of Calico, California
• Calico, Kern County, California
• Calico Mountains (Nevada)
• Calico Early Man Site, a possible archaeological site 15 miles NE of Barstow, California
• Calico Mills, one of Ahmedabad’s (India) earliest textile mills established in 1880
  • Calico Museum of Textiles, in the city of Ahmedabad, state of Gujarat in western India
• Calico Rock, Arkansas, a city in Izard County, United States
• Ghost Town & Calico Railway, a tourist railroad within Knott's Berry Farm, a theme park in Buena Park, California

Other

• Calico Skies, the sixth song on Paul McCartney's 1997 album, Flaming Pie.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kaliko, art bomuldsstof
adj. - af kaliko

Nederlands (Dutch)
bonte/zware (bedrukte) katoenstof, calicot, gevlekt dier

Français (French)
n. - (GB) calicot, (US) indienne
adj. - en calicot, en indienne, (US) tacheté

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kattun
adj. - Kattun..., (amerik.) bunt

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κάμποτ(ο), χοντρό βαμβακερό ύφασμα, (ΗΠΑ) (για ζώα) με τρίχωμα τριών χρωμάτων

Italiano (Italian)
cotone stampato

Português (Portuguese)
n. - tecido (m) de algodão

Русский (Russian)
коленкор

Español (Spanish)
n. - calicó, percal
adj. - de calicó o percal

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kalikå, kattun

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
印花棉布, 白洋布, 印花棉布的, 印花棉布做的, 有斑点的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 印花棉布, 白洋布
adj. - 印花棉布的, 印花棉布做的, 有斑點的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 사라사, 캘리코, 옥양목
adj. - 옥양목으로 만든, 얼룩 빛의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - キャラコ, サラサ, 更紗
adj. - キャラコの, サラサの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) قماش قطني‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בד-כותנה‬
adj. - ‮עשוי בד-כותנה, צבעוני‬

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