cascalho
English
Etymology
Portuguese cascalho (“a chip of stone, gravel”).
Noun
cascalho (uncountable)
- (South America) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand in which diamonds may be found.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cascalho in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Cacholas
Portuguese
Etymology
casca + -alho
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aʎu
Noun
cascalho m (plural cascalhos)
- gravel (small fragments of rock)