A species of migratory cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, inhabiting Eurasia and Africa, the male of which gives the vocalisation on which the word cuckoo is based.

A form of state religion in which a god-king is worshipped as a demigod or deity.

Alternative letter-case form of imperial cult

A cult that believes in apocalypticism and millenarianism; (by extension) a group that has lost touch with reality.

(slang) Morphine used as a recreational drug.

(geometry) A plane curve defined, in its left-opening form, by the polar equation r=a sec ³(𝜃/3) where sec is the secant function.

An edible African melon, Acanthosicyos naudinianus