Calico

Calico may refer to:

Companies and organizations

• Calico (company), an independent venture from Google founders to tackle the most difficult health care problems, such as extending lifespan
• CALICO (consortium) (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium), an international consortium devoted to the dissemination of information concerning language learning technology

Plants and animals

• Calico butterfly, a genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly called the Crackers, Calicoes, or Clicks
• Calico cat, a domestic cat with the common three- or four-colored coat pattern calico
• Calico (goldfish), goldfish that have a type of metallic and transparent scales
• Calico grouper, a species of fish found in Bermuda and the United States
• Kalmia latifolia, a species of flowering plant also known as calico-bush
• Aristolochia littoralis, a species of vine also called calico flower
• Flint corn, sometimes called calico corn
• Calico Bristle-nose Pleco, a color mutation of the Common Bristle-nose Pleco Ancistrus cirrhosus

People

• Calico Cooper (born 1981), American actress; daughter of rock and roll musician Alice Cooper
• Calico Jack (1682–1720), English pirate captain in the early 18th century
• Tara Calico (born 1969), a 19-year-old who disappeared in 1988
• Tyrone Calico (born 1980), American football wide receiver

Places

• Calico Mountains (California), a mountain range in the Mojave Desert
  • Calico Peaks, mountains within the Calico mountain range
  • Calico Early Man Site, a possible archaeological site in the mountain range
• Calico Mountains (Nevada), in northwestern Nevada
• Calico, Kern County, California, an unincorporated community
• Calico, San Bernardino County, California, a ghost town
• Calico National Recreation Trail, Colorado
• Calico, West Virginia

Textiles

• Calico (textile), a plain-woven cotton textile
• Calico (American English), the same as chintz

Other uses

• Calico Mills, one of Ahmedabad’s (India) earliest textile mills
• Calico Light Weapons Systems, a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon
• Calico Solar Energy Project, a proposed California solar energy plant
• Calico Acts, 1690–1721 laws that banned the import of textiles into England
• Calico, a research vessel in the 1978-81 Godzilla animated series
• Calico Panorama, a software tool by Kekus Digital to stitch panorama images.

See also

• Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, a 19th-century railroad known derisively as the "Calico railroad"
• All pages beginning with "Calico"

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