cocal
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English
Noun
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.
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Romani kòkalo (“bone”).
Noun
cocal n (plural cocale)
Declension
Declension of cocal
Spanish
Noun
cocal m (plural cocales)
- a coca plantation
Further reading
- “cocal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Venetian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Venetian crocal(e), borrowed from Byzantine Greek ὄρνις κροκάλης (órnis krokálēs, “bird of the sea-shore”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cocal m (plural cocali)
Derived terms
References
- Ferguson, Ronnie. 2007. A linguistic history of Venice. Florence: Olschki. Page 273.
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