cocal
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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Anagrams
- Colac, calco-
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Romani kòkalo (“bone”).
Noun
cocal n (plural cocale)
- (dated, popular, humorous) bone
Declension
Declension of cocal
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) cocal | cocalul | (niște) cocale | cocalele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) cocal | cocalului | (unor) cocale | cocalelor |
| vocative | cocalule | cocalelor | ||
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
- cocàłe, cocàło
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.ˈkal/
Noun
cocal m (plural cocali)
- seagull
Related terms
- cocalón