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Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales
The Cambrian quarry was a slate quarry, located to the west of Glyn Ceiriog in Denbighshire, North Wales. There was some small-scale extraction of slate
Cambrian_quarry
Rofft Cambrian Quarry (Chwarel Cambrian), Gwernymynydd Chwarel Pant Glas Cil-y-groeslwyd Woods, Eyarth Woods & Rocks & Craig Adwy-wynt Clogau Quarry Coed
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Denbighshire
List_of_Sites_of_Special_Scientific_Interest_in_Denbighshire
Former Welsh slate quarry
north-west Wales. The quarry was connected to the Corris Railway via the Upper Corris Tramway which carried its products to the Cambrian Railways at Machynlleth
Abercwmeiddaw_quarry
Fossil-bearing rock formation in the Canadian Rockies
preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At c.505 million years old (middle Cambrian), it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.
Burgess_Shale
Krukowski Quarry is a quartzite sandstone quarry near Mosinee, Wisconsin. In the late Cambrian period (510 m.y.a.), this area was a beach and shoreline
Krukowski_Quarry
Household cleaning product
William Lever. The abrasive was obtained from sandstone mined at the Cambrian Quarry at Gwernymynydd between 1905 and about 1950. The brand is still marketed
Scouring_powder
Quarry in British Columbia, Canada
X EL The Walcott Quarry is the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, bearing the
Walcott_Quarry
Human settlement in Wales
– among them were Dolgoch quarry, Melinllynpair quarry, and Nantcynog quarry (which were all unsuccessful – Tonfanau quarry was his only enduring mining
Tonfanau
Heritage railway in Shropshire, England
The Cambrian Heritage Railways (CHR) is a heritage railway company, trust and society based at both Llynclys and Oswestry in its restored Oswestry railway
Cambrian_Heritage_Railways
Caves Buckley Claypits and Commons Caerwys Tufa Cefn Meadow Cambrian Quarry (Chwarel Cambrian), Gwernymynydd Coed Talon Marsh Coed Trefraith Connah's Quay
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Flintshire
List_of_Sites_of_Special_Scientific_Interest_in_Flintshire
Geologic formation in Canada
thin-bedded limestone, and siltstone that was deposited during Middle Cambrian time (513 to 497 million years ago). It is famous for the exceptional preservation
Stephen_Formation
Fossil flora and fauna of the Burgess Shale
This is a list of the biota of the Burgess Shale, a Cambrian lagerstätte located in Yoho National Park in Canada. The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing
Paleobiota of the Burgess Shale
Paleobiota_of_the_Burgess_Shale
Class of extinct, Paleozoic arthropods
British Columbia, Canada (the Cambrian Burgess Shale and similar localities); New York, US (Ordovician Walcott–Rust quarry, near Russia, New York, and Beecher's
Trilobite
Protected area in Shropshire, England
protected area show the junction between Cambrian and Ordovician strata. During the period when this Granham's Moor Quarry was active, it was for a time (beginning
Granham's_Moor_Quarry
Former slate quarry near Pennal, in Merionethshire, Wales
The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard. 16 March 1883. hdl:10107/3421515. Great Britain. Mines Inspectorate (1903). Quarries: List of Quarries (under
Cwm_Ebol_quarry
Extinct group of animals that lived between 485 and 538 million years ago
The Cambrian chordates are an extinct group of animals belonging to the phylum Chordata that lived during the Cambrian, between 538 and 485 million years
Cambrian_chordates
Narrow gauge railway in Wales
Aberllefenni. Branches served the slate quarries at Corris Uchaf, Aberllefenni, the isolated quarries around Ratgoed and quarries along the length of the Dulas
Corris_Railway
geological series: Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian. The Cambrian deposits run south-west from Conwy to near Criccieth; these deposits were quarried in the Penrhyn
Slate_industry_in_Wales
Fossil-bearing member
Burgess Shale fossil Lagerstätte. It was quarried by Charles Walcott from 1911 to 1917 (and later named Walcott Quarry) and was the source of 95% of the fossils
Phyllopod_bed
Genus of Cambrian arthropods
known from a single specimen collected from the Cambrian Series 2 aged Parker Formation from the Parker Quarry of northwestern Vermont, United States. The
Protocaris
Formation of marble found in the northeastern US
Manhattan Prong, it dates from the Late Cambrian to the Early Ordovician ages (~484 ma ago). It was first quarried on a large scale commercially in the village
Tuckahoe_marble
American paleontologist
Foster, J. R. 2009. Taphonomic characteristics of a quarry in the Bright Angel Shale (Middle Cambrian), Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: a preliminary
John_R._Foster
Genus of cnidarians (fossil)
monotypic genus of macroscopic free-swimming cnidarians from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in Canada. The type species is Burgessomedusa phasmiformis
Burgessomedusa
Disused slate quarry in Mid Wales
December 1866, the quarry's owners, Messrs. Brett and Capper, were granted sequestration by the Court of Chancery against Cambrian Railways. This was
Frongoch_quarry,_Aberdyfi
Geological formation in Pennsylvania
1938. Lower Cambrian Olenellus zone of the Appalachians. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 49: 195-248, 13 pls. [2] Noah Getz Quarry at mindat
Kinzers_Formation
Extinct genus of sponges
extinct genus of stem-hexactinellid sponge. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Marjum Formation of Utah, United States, and the type species is P. turrelli
Polygoniella
Narrow-gauge railway in north Wales
are located. When the line carried traffic from the quarry, slates were transferred to the Cambrian Railways on the transhipment sidings. Leaving Wharf
Talyllyn_Railway
Defunct narrow-gauge railway in Wales
industrial railway built in 1874 in Mid-Wales to connect the Hendre-Ddu slate quarry to Aberangell station on the Mawddwy Railway. It consisted of a main line
Hendre-Ddu_Tramway
Lagerstätte in Wisconsin, USA
Konservat-Lagerstätte of Cambrian age located within the Elk Mound Group in Marathon County, Wisconsin. It is found in a series of quarries and outcrops that
Blackberry_Hill
Disused slate quarry in north Wales
Prince Llewellyn quarry (also known as Bwlch Cynnud quarry, Y Foel quarry, Hendre Ddu quarry, or Prince Llywelyn quarry) was a slate quarry that stands on
Prince_Llewellyn_quarry
Fifth stage of Cambrian and first stage of the Miaolingian
Wuliuan stage is the fifth stage of the Cambrian, and the first stage of the Miaolingian Series of the Cambrian. It was formally defined by the International
Wuliuan
Slate quarry in north Wales
2019. "Experience adventure at Penrhyn quarry". Zipworld. Retrieved 24 February 2019. "Welsh Slate's Cambrian slate wins international recognition". Breedon
Penrhyn_quarry
area. He opened a quarry in 1910 and in a series of field trips brought back 65,000 specimens, which he identified as Middle Cambrian in age. Due to the
History_of_the_Burgess_Shale
Short railway line running through mid Wales
use elsewhere on the Cambrian system. The advent of World War I dealt a significant blow to the railway. Several local slate quarries closed and tourist
Mawddwy_Railway
American paleontologist and 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1850–1927)
Walcott made one of his most important trilobite discoveries (Walcott-Rust quarry). She died on January 23, 1876. Walcott's interest in fossils led to his
Charles_Doolittle_Walcott
Cave near Wrexham, Wales
threat by the quarry operations, but it is now protected as an SSSI. and owned by North Wales Wildlife Trust "Ogof Dydd Byraf". Cambrian Cave Registry
Ogof_Dydd_Byraf
site. Krukowski Quarry, a sandstone quarry near Mosinee, Wisconsin. It yields late Cambrian period fossils, in the course of quarrying rock slabs for countertops
List of quarries in the United States
List_of_quarries_in_the_United_States
Extinct species of arthropod
species, Tokummia katalepsis, from the middle Cambrian (508 million years old) Burgess Shale as found in a quarry in Marble Canyon in Canada. The genus name
Tokummia
English landowner and company director
Llanberis Slate Company which comprised three quarries: Cefn Du Quarry, the Goodman Quarry and the Cambrian Quarry A magistrate for Warwickshire, Newton in
Goodwin_Newton
This list contains many extinct arthropod[1] genera from the Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era. Some trilobites, bradoriids and phosphatocopines may
List_of_Cambrian_arthropods
Fossil strata in Canada
PMID 19693066. S2CID 27237547. Matthew, G.F. (1899). "Studies on Cambrian Faunas, No. 3.—Upper Cambrian Fauna, Mount Stephen, British Columbia.—The Trilobites and
Mount_Stephen_trilobite_beds
Geologic unit in eastern North America
formally known as the Potsdam Group, is a geologic unit of mid-to-late Cambrian age found in Northern New York and northern Vermont and Quebec and Ontario
Potsdam_Sandstone
Disused slate quarry in Gwynedd, Wales
Alexandra quarry was a slate quarry in North Wales, on the slopes of Moel Tryfan in north Gwynedd. It was part of one of the major slate quarrying regions
Alexandra_quarry
Welsh railway in use 1873–1935
August to run from the Cambrian Railway at Ellesmere to the GWR at Chirk and thence to follow the Glyn Ceiriog road to the quarries. No construction took
Glyn_Valley_Tramway
Former railway station in England
The station building today is used as commercial premises, although the Cambrian Railways Society are restoring it. The railway was first opened by the
Oswestry_railway_station
Extinct genus of arthropod
arthropod fauna. The fossil was collected from a quarry on private land near Llandrindod Wells; the specific quarry is a part of the larger Gilwern Volcanic Formation
Mieridduryn
Three slate quarries in north Wales
transferred to the standard gauge Cambrian Railways and shipped throughout Great Britain. The Aberllefenni quarries continued to dispatch slate on the
Aberllefenni_quarries
Slate quarries in Denbighshire, Wales
"Corwen". The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard. 15 January 1915. hdl:10107/3412644. Annual Register. J. Dodsley. 1940. "Deeside Slab Quarry;deeside
Deeside and Moelfferna quarries
Deeside_and_Moelfferna_quarries
Heritage railway in Shropshire, England
in Nantmawr, on the old Cambrian Railways branch. The TVLR plans to operate trains from Nantmawr to Llanddu by Blodwell Quarry. The TVLR operated its first
Tanat_Valley_Light_Railway
Extinct genus of pentastomid
Aengapentastomum is a Cambrian genus of pentastomid from the Orsten of Sweden, containing one species, Aengapentastomum andresi. Aengapentastomum is roughly
Aengapentastomum
Geological formation in South Australia
The Emu Bay Shale is dated as Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4, correlated with the upper Botomian Stage of the Lower Cambrian. Its mode of preservation is the
Emu_Bay_Shale
Mountainous region and national park in North Wales
Archived from the original on 5 May 2010. "Cambrian Way". Cambrian Way Trust. Retrieved 2 June 2020. "Cambrian Way". The Long Distance Walkers Association
Snowdonia
Hill in Shropshire, England
pre-Cambrian lava flows in exposed quarries. Quartzite from the neighbouring Wrekin is also visible. The Ercall bears the marks of extensive quarrying, although
The_Ercall
Railway station in Wales
slate quarry, a small slate quarry at 52°36′26.0″N 4°01′27.9″W / 52.607222°N 4.024417°W / 52.607222; -4.024417.[citation needed] The quarry was short-lived
Brynglas_railway_station
Shale known for exceptional preservation of mid-Cambrian organisms
of British Columbia is famous for its exceptional preservation of mid-Cambrian organisms. Around 69 other sites have been discovered of a similar age
Burgess Shale-type preservation
Burgess_Shale-type_preservation
Disused slate quarry in north Wales
Rhiw-goch quarry (also known as Brandreath quarry) was a slate quarry that was worked from the 1860s to 1908. It stands on the north side of the Afon
Rhiw-goch_quarry,_Conwy
Disused slate quarry in Powys, Wales
The Llwyngwern quarry (sometimes known as Glandulas quarry or Maglona quarry) was a slate quarry in Wales that opened by 1828 and continued working until
Llwyngwern_quarry
Extinct genus of soft-bodied animals
Eldonia ludwigii, around 4 cm long. Walcott Quarry. Eldonia ludwigi (Walcott, 1911): Known from the Middle Cambrian (Wuliuan to Drumian) Burgess Shale, Spence
Eldonia
Island in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, United States
the island dates back to the Cambrian Period, consisting of a small outcrop of Tintic Quartzite, but mainly middle Cambrian limestone, shale, and dolomite
Stansbury_Island
Geologic formation in Pennsylvania, United States
geologic formation in Pennsylvania. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period. Named from exposures at a railroad cut at Vintage, Lancaster County
Vintage_Dolomite
Extinct family of Cambrian arthropods
Gaines, Robert R. (2022-02-16). "The soft-bodied biota of the Cambrian Series 2 Parker Quarry Lagerstätte of northwestern Vermont, USA". Journal of Paleontology
Amplectobeluidae
Protected area in Cumbria, England
Ashgill Quarry". Protected Planet. Retrieved 2024-11-24. "Tranearth". Lancashire Climbing & Caving Club. Retrieved 2024-11-24. "British Cambrian to Ordovician
Ashgill_Quarry
Human settlement in Wales
Garth Quarry was opened in 1870 to produce granite setts for transport to developing towns and cities by the newly opened Cambrian Railways. The quarry now
Minffordd
Extinct genus of trilobites
inches long). It lived during the Botomian and Toyonian stages of the Lower Cambrian (Olenellus-zone), 522 to 510 million years ago, in what is currently North
Olenellus
Fossilized fauna of Burgess shale
assemblages based on taxonomic criteria only. The fauna of the middle Cambrian has a cosmopolitan range. All assemblages preserving soft-part anatomy
Burgess_Shale-type_fauna
Cambrian geological formation in Vermont known for exceptional fossil preservation
Gaines, Robert R. (July 2022). "The soft-bodied biota of the Cambrian Series 2 Parker Quarry Lagerstätte of northwestern Vermont, USA". Journal of Paleontology
Parker_Slate
Protected area in Pembrokeshire, Wales
geological qualities: Cambrian sedimentary rocks exposed in a disused quarry and road cutting. In Wales, geological sites range from quarries to rocky outcrops
Treffgarne_Bridge_Quarry
Former mine in Wales
and the quarry leased a wharf at Cei Ward until 1869, when it opened a new transshipment wharf at Machynlleth where slate was loaded onto Cambrian Railways
Braichgoch_slate_mine
Extinct genus of priapulid worms
archaeopriapulid known from two specimens from the Walcott Quarry from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. The specimens of Lectythioscopa are both missing
Lecythioscopa
Railway station in Shropshire, England
Penygarreg Lane (or "Pen-y-garreg Lane") is a halt on the Cambrian Heritage Railways' line in Shropshire. It is on the northern edge of the village of
Penygarreg Lane Halt railway station
Penygarreg_Lane_Halt_railway_station
Extinct genus of arthropods
widespread and longest-surviving arthropod genera of the Early and Middle Cambrian. Known from over 300 specimens in the Burgess Shale and the Chengjiang
Alalcomenaeus
Heritage railway in the Welsh county of Gwynedd
Railway, which runs from Porthmadog along the track bed of the former Cambrian Railways exchange siding and connects to the WHR main line at Pen-y-Mount
Welsh_Highland_Railway
Fossil deposit in Wales
What makes these fossils different from those found in places such as the Cambrian fossils of the Burgess Shale is their small size. Many forms that have
Castle_Bank
Former slate quarry in Corris Uchaf, Wales
north-west Wales. The quarry was connected to the Corris Railway via the Upper Corris Tramway which carried its products to the Cambrian Railways at Machynlleth
Abercorris_quarry
Mid-Cambrian fossils from a deposit in British Columbia, Canada
itself, are fossils that formed around 505 million years ago in the mid-Cambrian period. They were discovered in Canada in 1886, and Charles Doolittle Walcott
Fossils_of_the_Burgess_Shale
Industry of the extraction and processing of slate
related to the extraction and processing of slate. Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling in a slate mine. Common uses for slate
Slate_industry
Marble formation in Maryland, US
The Cockeysville Marble is a Precambrian, Cambrian, or Ordovician marble formation in Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard Counties, Maryland. It also
Cockeysville_Marble
Protected area in Clwyd, Wales
Cynwyd Forest Quarry (Welsh: Chwarel Coedwig Cynwyd) is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) located aside a track within the Cynwyd Forest near
Cynwyd_Forest_Quarry
Former quarry in Wales
Ratgoed quarry (also known as Alltgoed quarry) was the northernmost of the slate quarries served by the Corris Railway. It is one mile north of Aberllefenni
Ratgoed_quarry
Extinct order of arthropods
close relatives as part of the Artiopoda. They are present in the Lower Cambrian fossil record along with trilobites from the Redlichiida, Corynexochida
Agnostida
Clade of ecdysozoan animals
out. The genus Markuelia, known from fossilized embryos from the middle Cambrian, is thought to be a stem scalidophoran. The group is named after the spines
Scalidophora
Abandoned quarry in Germany
the Lower Cambrian, followed by Revin layers of the Middle and Upper Cambrian and then by "Salm" rocks from the lowest Ordovician. The quarried shales come
Schevenhütte_Quarry
Extinct genus of marine invertebrates
genus of edrioasteroid echinoderm that lived 510 million years ago in the Cambrian aged Kinzers Formation in what is now Pennsylvania. This genus is important
Yorkicystis
Cambrian arthropod
Waptia is an extinct genus of marine arthropod from the Middle Cambrian of North America. It grew to a length of 6.65 cm (3 in), and had a large bivalved
Waptia
Fossil locality of the Burgess Shale
of Mount Stephen. The locality is dated to the Miaolingian epoch of the Cambrian period, around 508 million years old. The beds represent one of the more
Tulip_Beds
Geologic formation in Nevada, United States
formation in California and Nevada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period. The Carrara Formation would be defined in 1961 by Cornwall and
Carrara_Formation
Genus of trilobites
is a genus of trilobite belonging to Ptychoparioidea known from the mid-Cambrian of Laurentia (North America). E. kingii is one of the most common trilobite
Elrathia
Hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock
Shropshire. Also to be found in England are the Cambrian "Wrekin quartzite" (in Shropshire), and the Cambrian "Hartshill quartzite" (Nuneaton area). In Wales
Quartzite
Cambrian to Lower Ordovician sediments of the Eriboll and Durness Groups lie above the Torridonian with an angular unconformity. The Lower Cambrian Eriboll
Geology_of_the_Isle_of_Skye
parameters and orientations of specimens of Cordubia gigantea from the Cambrian strata from the Constantina site (Torreárboles Formation; Spain), identify
2026_in_paleontology
the evolution of the morphological diversity of cephala and pygidia in Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites is published by Suárez & Esteve (2026). Collantes
2026 in arthropod paleontology
2026_in_arthropod_paleontology
Former slate quarry in Wales
ISBN 978-0-86381-689-5. "Corris". Cambrian News. 21 February 1879. "Quarry pay days". The North Wales Express. 10 December 1880. "Ratgoed". Cambrian News. 24 May 1889
Cambergi_quarry
Extinct genus of arthropods
Gaines, Robert R. (July 2022). "The soft-bodied biota of the Cambrian Series 2 Parker Quarry Lagerstätte of northwestern Vermont, USA". Journal of Paleontology
Vermontcaris
Heritage railway line in Gwynedd, Wales
(31 km) route ran between the Corwen & Bala Railway at Bala Junction and Cambrian Railways' station at Dolgellau. In 1877 it became part of the network operated
Bala_Lake_Railway
Extinct family of lobopodian worms
palaeontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Walcott Quarry that contains the Cambrian Burgess Shale. In 1911, Walcott gave the name Canadia sparsa
Hallucigeniidae
Layer of sediment, rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics
colored or differently structured material exposed in cliffs, road cuts, quarries, and river banks. Individual bands may vary in thickness from a few millimeters
Stratum
Welsh quarry manager and owner
was a Welsh quarry manager and owner. Davies was born in Corris in 1855. His father Edward Davies (1822–1874) was Edmund Buckley's quarry supervisor,
Edward_Hurst_Davies
Disused slate quarry in North Wales
Wrysgan quarry was a slate quarry near the village of Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Festiniog, North Wales. It was worked intermittently from the 1830s, and was
Wrysgan_quarry
American geologic formation
the north central United States. It preserves trilobite fossils from the Cambrian Period. Paleontology portal List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in
Eau_Claire_Formation
Geologic formation in Canada
Sedimentary Basin. It is a thick sequence of carbonate rocks of Middle Cambrian age. It was named for Cathedral Mountain in Yoho National Park by Charles
Cathedral_Formation
CAMBRIAN QUARRY
CAMBRIAN QUARRY
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : perhaps a variant of Holme.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : unexplained.
Boy/Male
Teutonic
Rules the elves.
Boy/Male
Hebrew
God's able-bodied one.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : variant of Musgrove.
Girl/Female
Indian
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : unexplained. Compare Cortner.Americanized form of German Gärtner (see Gartner).
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : variant of Pratt.
Girl/Female
American, Australian
From Wales
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : habitational name from Threlkeld in Cumbria, so named from Old Norse þrǽll ‘thrall’, ‘serf’ + kelda ‘spring’.
Surname or Lastname
Cambodian
Cambodian : unexplained.English : variant of Timm.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : variant of Irvin.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : habitational name from Salkeld in Cumbria, from Old English salh ‘willow’, ‘sallow’ + hylte ‘wood’. This surname has been present (though never common) in Ireland for centuries.
Surname or Lastname
Cambodian
Cambodian : unexplained.Peruvian : unexplained. The etymology is not Spanish; it is probably Quechuan.English : unexplained.
Girl/Female
American, British, English
From Wales; Spelling Variant of Cambria Referring to Wales
Female
Chamoru
, warehouse.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : perhaps a variant of Blacklock.
Girl/Female
English
Spellingreferring to Wales.
CAMBRIAN QUARRY
CAMBRIAN QUARRY
CAMBRIAN QUARRY
CAMBRIAN QUARRY
CAMBRIAN QUARRY
CAMBRIAN QUARRY
CAMBRIAN QUARRY
a.
Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.
n.
One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.
n.
A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.
a.
Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.
a.
Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian.
n.
That which is set in or inserted, especially a narrow strip of embroidered lace, muslin, or cambric.
a.
Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.
a.
Same as Cabiric.
n.
A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.
a.
Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange.
a.
Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Cimbri.
n.
A native of Cambria or Wales.
n.
A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin.
n.
The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets.
n.
The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
n.
The Cambrian formation.