coromandel

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Etymology

From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood.

Noun

coromandel (countable and uncountable, plural coromandels)

  1. Synonym of calamander
    • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “My Son's Wife”, in A Diversity of Creatures:
      Rhoda took their battered hats, led the women upstairs for hairpins, and presently fed them all with tea-cakes, poached eggs, anchovy toast, and drinks from a coromandel-wood liqueur case.
  2. Synonym of Chinese violet

Dutch

Etymology

From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood. The neuter gender suggests that use as a common noun may be a shortening of coromandelhout.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koː.roːˈmɑn.dəl/
  • Hyphenation: co‧ro‧man‧del

Noun

coromandel n (uncountable)

  1. calamander, striped ebony (a heavy wood, brown in color with deep black streaks, yielded by a limited number of species in the genus Diospyros)
    Synonym: coromandelhout
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