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Calico is a plain-woven cotton textile.
It may also refer to:
Textiles
edit- Calico (American English), the same as chintz
Plants and animals
editAnimals
edit- Calico (goldfish), goldfish that have a type of metallic and transparent scales
- Calico butterfly, a genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly called the crackers, calicoes, or clicks
- Calico cat, a domestic cat, almost always female, with the common three- or four-colored coat pattern calico
- Calico grouper, a species of fish found in Bermuda and the United States
Plants
edit- Alternanthera bettzickiana, also known as calico plant
- Aristolochia littoralis, a species of vine also called calico flower
- Flint corn, also called calico corn
- Kalmia latifolia, a species of flowering plant also known as calico-bush
- Loeseliastrum, a genus of flower plants also called calico
Places
edit- Calico, California, a ghost town
- Calico, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
- Calico, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Calico Bay, a bay in North Carolina
- Calico Hills, Humboldt County, Nevada
- Calico Mountains (California), a mountain range in the Mojave Desert
- Calico Early Man Site, a possible archaeological site in the mountain range
- Calico Peaks, mountains within the Calico mountain range
- Calico National Recreation Trail, Colorado
- Calico Valley, a valley in Georgia
People
edit- Tara Calico (born 1969), an American woman who disappeared in 1988
- Tyrone Calico (born 1980), an American football wide receiver
- Calico Cooper (born 1981), an American actress, singer, and dancer, and daughter of the rock and roll musician Alice Cooper and the dancer Sheryl Cooper
- Calico Jack (1682–1720), an English pirate captain in the early 18th century
- Calico (footballer) (born 1987), Portuguese footballer
Arts and entertainment
edit- "Calico", a song from the album Anthology by Alien Ant Farm
- Calico (album), 2023 album by Ryan Beatty
- "Calico", a song from the 1993 album So Tough, by Saint Etienne
- Calico, a fictional research vessel in the 1978-1981 TV series Godzilla
- Dr Calico, a fictional character in the movie Bolt (2008), voiced by Malcolm McDowell
- Calico (board game), a 2020 board game
- "Calico Skies", a song by Paul McCartney's from his 1997 album, Flaming Pie.
Companies and organizations
edit- Calico (company), department of Alphabet responsible for health, life sciences and biotechnology
- CALICO (consortium), an international consortium for information on language learning technology
- Calico Light Weapons Systems, a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon
- Calico Mills, one of Ahmedabad's (India) earliest textile mills
Other uses
edit- Calico Solar Energy Project, a proposed California solar energy plant
See also
edit- Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, a 19th-century railroad known derisively as the "Calico railroad"
- All pages with titles beginning with Calico
- Calicut (disambiguation), city in India, origin of the word/fabric