Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
Thursday after Trinity Sunday;
first celebrated in 1246;
2.
a city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Corpus \Cor"pus\ (-p[u^]s), n.; pl. Corpora (-p[-o]*r[.a]).
[L.]
A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
[1913 Webster]
Corpus callosum (k[a^]l*l[=o]"s[u^]m); pl. Corpora
callosa (-s?) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band
of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres.
See Brain.
Corpus Christi (kr[i^]s"t[imac]) [L., body of Christ] (R.
C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on
the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx.
Corpus delicti (d[-e]*l[i^]k"t[imac]) [L., the body of the
crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the
comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a
crime.
Corpus luteum (l[=u]"t[-e]*[u^]m); pl. Corpora lutea
(-[.a]). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow
mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the
mammalian ovary.
Corpus striatum (str[-i]*[=a]"t[u^]m); pl. Corpora
striata (-t[.a]). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in
the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Corpus Christi
n 1: Thursday after Trinity Sunday; first celebrated in 1246
2: a city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "Corpus Christi":
Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation,
Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas,
Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Easter, Easter Monday,
Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany,
Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week,
Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide,
Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day,
Michaelmastide, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost,
Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday,
Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday,
White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide,
Whitweek
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Corpus Christi, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 277454
Housing Units (2000): 107831
Land area (2000): 154.639124 sq. miles (400.513476 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 305.597535 sq. miles (791.493948 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 460.236659 sq. miles (1192.007424 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17000
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 27.742857 N, 97.401927 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 78401 78402 78404 78405 78406 78407
78408 78409 78410 78411 78412 78413
78414 78415 78416 78417 78418 78419
78473
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Corpus Christi, TX
Corpus Christi