Words that start with C

Chives are a member of the onion family. Chives grow in clumps from a bulb under the ground. You can use the leaves cut up on salads or on potato or pasta dishes. You can use the flowers in salads too. Chives are very easy to grow from seed, and they can also grow new chives by digging up a clump and splitting off the smaller side bulbs.
There are different varieties of chives, one of the most useful being garlic chives, which have leaves and flowers with a strong garlic flavour.

Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted seeds of the tropical cacao tree. The seeds are used to make cocoa solids and cocoa butter.
Chocolate is used to make a huge variety of sweets, desserts, cakes and drinks.
Modern chocolate usually comes in dark, milk and white chocolate. All three of them have sugar added. Milk chocolate has milk added to it, and white chocolate doesn't have cocoa solids in it, only cocoa butter.

You choose something when you pick it from several different options.

The toddler in the picture is thinking about whether to choose carrot, potato or broccoli.

A chopping board is a portable surface, usually made from wood or plastic, that is used when you are cutting up food so that your kitchen table or benches don't get damaged.

A chord is three or more musical notes played at the same time. The man in the picture is playing a chord on his guitar.

Chowder is a north American name for seafood soup or stew. Chowder usually has a cream base, but can sometimes have a tomato base.
Soups or stews that are creamy and similar to chowder but do not have seafood in them are sometimes called chowder too.

A Christmas tree is a pine tree (real or plastic) that is brought inside at Christmas time as part of the Christmas traditions. It is usually covered with colourful lights and decorations. Often a star or an angel is put at the very top of the tree, and the Christmas presents are put underneath.

A chunk is a rough piece or part of something. It is bigger than a small bit, but smaller than the whole.

The photo is of a chunk of road bitumen.

Churning is the process of constantly stirring cream to turn it into butter. The container that you use to churn in is also called a churn.

Cicadas are big, noisy insects that can be found all over the world. Most species are about 2-5cm long but some grow to 16cm long. Only male cicadas make the noise, and they are partly hollow to make the noise louder. Female cicadas are not hollow, and as they are very big and meaty, some people eat them.
Cicadas spend the first part of their life underground as nymphs, a time of their life which can last for up to 17 years. When the nymphs come to the surface, they shed their skin and emerge as winged adult cicadas.