Cha-cha
a fast ballroom dance of Latin American origin, similar to the mambo, that follows a rhythmic pattern based upon a quick three-step movement.
to dance the cha-cha.
n.
also cha-cha-cha, type of Latin-American 3-beat ballroom dance, 1954, echoic of the music.
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- Chaeto-
a combining form meaning “hair,” used in the formation of compound words: chaetophorous. before vowels chaet-, word-forming element meaning “hair,” also, in scientific use, “spine, bristle,” from Latinized form of Greek khaite “long, flowing hair” (of persons, also of horses, lions), related to Avestan gaesa- “curly hair.”
- Chaetognath
any animal of the phylum Chaetognatha, comprising the arrowworms. Also, chaetognathan [kee-tog-nuh-thuh n] /kiˈtɒg nə θən/ (Show IPA), chaetognathous. belonging or pertaining to the Chaetognatha. noun any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth chaetognath (kē’tŏg-nāth’) Any of various small, […]
- Chaetophobia
noun a fear of hair Word Origin Greek ‘long flowing hair’ n. “fear of hair,” from chaeto- “hair; bristle” + -phobia “fear.”
- Chaetophorous
bearing bristles; setigerous.
- Chaetopod
any annelid of the class or group Chaetopoda, having the body composed of more or less similar segments with muscular processes bearing setae. noun any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta See oligochaete, polychaete