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
Animals
- Calico (goldfish), goldfish that have a type of metallic and transparent scales
- 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 grouper, a species of fish found in Bermuda and the United States
Plants
- Aristolochia littoralis, a species of vine also called calico flower
- Flint corn, also called calico corn
- Kalmia latifolia, a species of flowering plant also known as calico-bush
- Loeseliastrum, a genus of flower plants also called calico
Places
- Calico, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
- Calico, San Bernardino County, California, a ghost town
- Calico, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Calico Bay, a bay in North Carolina
- Calico Hills, Humboldt County, Nevada
- Calico Mountains (California), a mountain range in the Mojave Desert
- Calico Early Man Site, a possible archaeological site in the mountain range
- Calico Peaks, mountains within the Calico mountain range
- Calico National Recreation Trail, Colorado
- Calico Valley, a valley in Georgia
People
- Tara Calico (born 1969), a 19-year-old who disappeared in 1988
- Tyrone Calico (born 1980), an American football wide receiver
- Calico Cooper (born 1981), an American actress and daughter of the rock and roll musician Alice Cooper
- Calico Jack (1682–1720), an English pirate captain in the early 18th century
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Calico, a fictional research vessel in the 1978-81 Godzilla animated series
- "Calico", a song by Alien Ant Farm from ANThology
- "Calico", the 4th song on the album So Tough (1993) performed and written by indie dance band Saint Etienne (band)
- Calico Bush (novel), a 1931 American children's novel
- Calico Records, a late 1950s American doo-wop record label based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Dr Calico, a fictional character in the movie Bolt (2008), voiced by Malcolm McDowell
Companies and organizations
- Calico (company), an independent healthcare venture from the founders of Google
- CALICO (consortium), an international consortium for information on language learning technology
- Calico Light Weapons Systems, a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon
- Calico Mills, one of Ahmedabad's (India) earliest textile mills
Other uses
- Calico Solar Energy Project, a proposed California solar energy plant
See also
- Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, a 19th-century railroad known derisively as the "Calico railroad"
- All pages with titles beginning with Calico
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