coromandel
See also: Coromandel
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood.
Noun edit
coromandel (countable and uncountable, plural coromandels)
- 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.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
coromandel n (uncountable)
- 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