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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, almost always female, with the common three- or four-colored coat pattern calico
• Calico grouper, a species of fish found in Bermuda and the United States

Plants

• Alternanthera bettzickiana, also known as calico plant
• 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, California, a ghost town
• Calico, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
• 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), an American woman who disappeared in 1988
• Tyrone Calico (born 1980), an American football wide receiver
• Calico Cooper (born 1981), an American actress, singer, and dancer, and daughter of the rock and roll musician Alice Cooper and the dancer Sheryl Cooper
• Calico Jack (1682–1720), an English pirate captain in the early 18th century
• Calico (footballer) (born 1987), Portuguese footballer

Arts and entertainment

• "Calico", a song from the album Anthology by Alien Ant Farm
• Calico (album), 2023 album by Ryan Beatty
• "Calico", a song from the 1993 album So Tough, by Saint Etienne
• Calico, a fictional research vessel in the 1978-1981 TV series Godzilla
• Dr Calico, a fictional character in the movie Bolt (2008), voiced by Malcolm McDowell
• Calico (board game), a 2020 board game
• " Calico Skies", a song by Paul McCartney's from his 1997 album, Flaming Pie.

Companies and organizations

• Calico (company), department of Alphabet responsible for health, life sciences and biotechnology
• 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
• Calicut (disambiguation), city in India, origin of the word/fabric

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