Calico is a plain-woven cotton textile. may

Calico 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 restored as a tourist attraction
  • Calico Mountains (California), a mountain range in the Mojave Desert where the ghost town is located
  • Calico Early Man Site, a archaeological site in the mountain range
  • Calico Peaks, mountains within the Calico mountain range
  • 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 Wilderness, a wilderness area contained within the hills
  • 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
  • John Rackham (hanged 1720), an English pirate captain in the early 18th century whose likely fictional nickname was calico.
  • 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
  • Calico (comics), a Marvel Comics character and member of the Outliers

Companies and organizations

  • Calico (company), subsidiary of Alphabet with a focus on the biology of aging
  • 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
  • Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, a 19th-century railroad known derisively as the "Calico railroad"

See also

  • Calicut (disambiguation), city in India, origin of the word/fabric