Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various small marine clams of the genus Donax that are common in the coastal waters of the eastern and southern United States and have variously colored, often striped or banded shells.
- n. A soft porous limestone, composed essentially of fragments of shells and coral, used as a building material.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rock made up of fragments of marine shells, slightly consolidated by pressure and infiltrated calcareous matter. The name is chiefly applied to a rock of this kind occurring on the east coast of Florida, and used to some extent as a building material.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in US coastal waters.
- n. geology A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.
Etymologies
- Spanish, cockle, probably diminutive of concha, shell, from Latin, mussel; see conch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sources: Tile: coquina stone and sea glass, Bisazza”
“January 30th, 2010 at 2: 49 pm dbadass says: coquina”
“It's built around a coquina stone courtyard with waterfalls and ponds.”
The Wall Street Journal: Don King Relists Estate in South Florida for $20 Million
“Because it was built from coquina, a rare form of limestone and soft shells with small air pockets that absorbed shells rather than shattering, it is the oldest fort of its kind that was never breached.”
The Huffington Post: Mickey Goodman: Family Fun - 48-Hours in St. Augustine, Florida
“It may not matter much to an individual coquina that it has been plucked from the edge of the surf, only to end up in boiling water.”
“But they have a variety of intertidal wetlands and sandy and rocky coasts of coquina (cemented molluscs).”
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
“Janet Reno, the former attorney general of the United States, has a coquina house in Kendall—Kendall is not an elegant section of Miami.”
“In San Agustín, there were still missions with Franciscan friars in brown habits, and the mass was sung every day in a long coquina church with a New World baroque facade.”
“A hundred years later, Spanish soldiers had raised mud and coquina forts along the coasts.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coquina’.
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Another 250 Spelling Words
Another range of words from the intermediate to the advanced speller's level.
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molluscs
very comprehensive list
of molluscs,who does not like
calamari? hmm yum
molluscigerous
100,000 species just in molluscsabalone, ammonite, argonaut, ataata, belon, bivalve, blackhead, bluepoint, brachiopod, buckie, byssal, byssus and 271 more...
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Pet Rocks and Carbon Footprints
Soil samples for stone soup.
palynology, stratigraphy, tse'bit'ai, tse bitai, tse bit ai, bitai, minette, maar, lithosphere, peridotite, gneiss, gabbro and 115 more...
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stripes and bands
variegated armadillos and other asundry bands and stripes
fajada, raye, apar, fasciated, hemigalus, numbat, onyx, tatouay, tortrix, coquina, peba, myrmecobius and 113 more...
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Klezmer
"Klezmer (Yiddish כליזמר or קלעזמער (klezmer), pl כליזמרים (klezmorim), כליזמרfrom Hebrew כלי זמר — instruments of music) is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by ...
klezmer, Klezmer, klezmorim, freylekh, Bulgar, sher, doina, hora, Yiddish theatre, Bei Mir Bistu Shein, Sholom Secunda, Donna, Donna and 29 more...
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Zoological Terms
Terms used in Zoology
papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 319 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Mollusks
"Snaily, clammy, squidy" has evolved into a vehicle for linking to mollusk quotations, so I've started this list for vernacular names of mollusks.
clam, snail, slug, squid, octopus, nautilus, conch, chank, whelk, mussel, oyster, scallop and 221 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 281 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for coquina.
ruzuzu Okay--I get it now. Thanks! In the meantime, I started a klezmer list. Feb 25, 2013
hernesheir The whole allusion and connection to coquina lies with the mussel's genus name Donax, which reminded me of the song's repetitive verse "Dona dona dona..." . I like the visuals, especially the live oak trees and the old coquina stone city gates of St. Augustine FL, both of which have been pictured on post cards and tourist souvenirs for well over a century. Feb 25, 2013
ruzuzu That's one of my favorites, hh. I'm tempted to put this on my cattle list now, but I have to ask: Why coquina? Feb 25, 2013
hernesheir Dona dona dona Donax
Oyfn firl ligt dos kelbl
ligt gebundn mit a shtrik
hoikh in himl flit dos shvelbl
freyt zikh dreyt zikh hin un krik.
Lakht der vint in korn
lakht un lakht un lakhtt
lakht er op a tog a gantsn
mit a halber nakht.
Dona, dona, dona, dona,
Dona, dona, dona, da,
Dona, dona, dona, dona,
Dona, dona, dona, da.
Shreit dos kelbl zogt der poyer
ver zhe heyst dikh zein a kalb
volst gekent tzu zein a foygl
volst gekent tzu zein a shvalb.
Lakht der vint in korn ...
Blinde kelber tut men bindn
un men shlept zey un men shekht
ver s'hot fligl, flit aroyftzu
iz bei keynem nit keyn knekht. Feb 24, 2013