cascalho
English
editEtymology
editFrom Portuguese cascalho (“a chip of stone, gravel”).
Noun
editcascalho (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit
- Rhymes: -aʎu
Noun
editcascalho m (plural cascalhos)
Further reading
edit- “cascalho” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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