Calico (disambiguation)

Calico is a plain-woven cotton textile. It may also refer to:

Textiles

• Calico (American English), the same as chintz

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
• Loeseliastrum, a genus of flower plants also called calico
• Aristolochia littoralis, a species of vine also called calico flower
• Flint corn, sometimes called calico corn

Places

• Calico, Kern County, California, an unincorporated community
• Calico, San Bernardino County, California, a ghost town
• Calico, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
• Calico, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Calico Bay, a bay in North Carolina
• 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 Hills, in northwestern Nevada
• Calico National Recreation Trail, Colorado
• Calico Valley, a valley in Georgia

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

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
• Calico Light Weapons Systems, a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon

Other uses

• Calico Mills, one of Ahmedabad’s (India) earliest textile mills
• Calico Solar Energy Project, a proposed California solar energy plant
• Calico, a research vessel in the 1978-81 Godzilla animated series
• "Calico", a song by Alien Ant Farm from ANThology
• Calico Bush (novel) a 1931 American children's novel

See also

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