cocal
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cocal (plural cocals)
- A coconut grove or plantation.
- 1963, Ecology - Volume 44, page 614:
- Two lizards were found in 2 coconut palms a mile apart on the beach, in the middle of the afternoon of March 23. The tracks indicated that they had crawled out of the cocal, wandered around the beach a little, and then climbed the trees.
- 1969, Regina Evans Holloman, Developmental Change in San Blas, page 122:
- Since the average cocal (coconut plantation) has one hundred trees, this is an income of only $5 per year per plantation in badly blighted areas.
- 1985, Craig Lanier Dozier, Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence:
- One immense cocal (coconut plantation), about 7 miles north of Greytown, constituting a strip about 20 miles along the Caribbean shore, was estimated to have thousands of trees.
- 1989, Emory King, The Little World of Danny Vasquez: Memoirs of Old San Pedro, page 95:
- One night a week Brother Jake divided the Scouts into two teams and took them to the Esmeralda cocal (coconut grove) just south of the village.
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Romani kòkalo (“bone”).
Noun
[edit]cocal n (plural cocale)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | cocal | cocalul | cocale | cocalele | |
| genitive-dative | cocal | cocalului | cocale | cocalelor | |
| vocative | cocalule | cocalelor | |||
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]cocal m (plural cocales)
- a coca plantation
Further reading
[edit]- “cocal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Venetan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Venetan crocal(e), borrowed from Byzantine Greek ὄρνις κροκάλης (órnis krokálēs, “bird of the sea-shore”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cocal m (plural cocali)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ferguson, Ronnie. 2007. A linguistic history of Venice. Florence: Olschki. Page 273.
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