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Coquina
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Co-qui′na
,Noun.
[Sp., shellfish, cockle.]
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.
Definition 2024
coquina
coquina
English
Coquina shells
Noun
coquina (plural coquinas)
- Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in US coastal waters.
- (geology) A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells
Latin
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Etymology
Late Latin. From coquīnus "of cooks", from coquus "a cook", from coquō "to cook".
Noun
coquīna f (genitive coquīnae); first declension
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References
- coquina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- COQUINA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “coquina”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.