Coromandel

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of calamander. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Synonym of Chinese violet. countable, uncountable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town on the Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, named after HMS Coromandel.
  2. 2
    A mountain range in the Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand; in full, Coromandel Range.
  3. 3
    A geographic region of southeast coastal India, bounded by the Utkal Plains to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Kaveri delta to the south, and the Eastern Ghats to the west; located in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; in full, Coromandel Coast.

Synonyms

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calamanderchinese violet

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood.

Related phrases

Coromandel CoastCoromandel PeninsulaCoromandel RangeCoromandel RangesThames-Coromandel

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