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accoma

accoma noun: a large tree, Sideroxylon foetidissimum, (possibly native to the island of Hispaniola); also, the very hard wood harvested from it, used especially for shipbuilding.

Noun

accoma (countable and uncountable, plural accomas)

  1. (rare) A large tree, Sideroxylon foetidissimum, (possibly native to the island of Hispaniola); also, the very hard wood harvested from it, used especially for shipbuilding.
    • Accoma, n. m., a large tree suitable for building, a very hard wood.1802, Ducœurjoly quoted by Pierre Rézeau, “Lexical aspects of French and Creole in Saint-Domingue at the end of the eighteenth century” in History, Society and Variation: In Honor of Albert Valdman...
    • DOMINGO, SAINT. This island is situated in the Atlantic ocean, fifty miles east of Cuba, and seventy miles east of Jamaica. The country is well stocked with cattle, oak, cedar, pine, Brazil wood, manchineal, the maho, and accoma tree.1811, Joshua Montefiore, The American Trader’s Compendium, page 143

Forms of accoma

pluralaccomas

Origin of accoma

Probably from the Haitian Creole accoma.

Questions about accoma

What does accoma mean?
Accoma means a large tree, Sideroxylon foetidissimum, (possibly native to the island of Hispaniola); also, the very hard wood harvested from it, used especially for shipbuilding.
What part of speech is accoma?
Accoma is a noun.
What is the plural of accoma?
The plural of accoma is accomas.

Words near accoma in the dictionary

  1. accollés
  2. accolé
  3. accolée
  4. accolés
  5. accom
  6. accoma
  7. Accomac
  8. Accomac County
  9. Accomack
  10. Accomack County
  11. accomas

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