cocal

cocal (plural cocals)

1. 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.

• Colac, calco-

Borrowed from Romani kòkalo (“bone”).

cocal n (plural cocale)

1. (dated, popular, humorous) bone

cocal m (plural cocales)

1. a coca plantation

• “cocal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• cocàłe, cocàło

From Old Venetan crocal(e), borrowed from Byzantine Greek ὄρνις κροκάλης (órnis krokálēs, “bird of the sea-shore”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈkal/

cocal m (plural cocali)

1. seagull

• cocalón

• Ferguson, Ronnie. 2007. A linguistic history of Venice. Florence: Olschki. Page 273.