coromandel en · NOUN
Etymology
From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Synonym of calamander.
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.
1917, Rudyard Kipling, “My Son's Wife”, in A Diversity of Creatures:
- (countable, uncountable) Synonym of Chinese violet.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| coromandels | Number=Plur | lexicographic |