"Kala" is a word in ILOKANO, HILIGAYNON

baláy - House, home; building, dwelling, abode; nest, breeding place, shell of a snail, of a turtle, etc. Diín ang …

baó-báo - Dim. of baó. Also: The instep, the forepart of the upper side of the human foot near its …

The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of …

Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.

The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously …

An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum …

The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually …

A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.

A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and …

The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.

A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a …

The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, …

An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings …

Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a …

An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an …

Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.

Resembling the shell of a tortoise.

A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled …

having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe …