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camalote

camalote noun: a floating island composed of Pontederia plants.

Noun

camalote (plural camalotes)

  1. A floating island composed of Pontederia plants.
    • About ten A.M. another camalote of very large size, apparently two acres in extent, floated into the midst of us. […] There islands are sometimes very compact, and capable of sustaining a considerable weight. There is a well-authenticated story of two tigers being drifted down upon a camalote as...1848, Lauchlan Bellingham Mackinnon, Steam Warfare in the Parana: A Narrative of Operations, by the Combined Squadrons of England and France, in Forcing a Passage Up that River, page 285
    • A camalote is a floating island of river plants often with enough root structure to support one or more men. Later in the war, the Paraguayans camou- flaged canoes as camalotes so as to approach the Brazilian fleet undetected.1974, Loren Scott Patterson, The War of the Triple Alliance: Paraguayan Offensive Phase - a Military History

Examples of camalote in a sentence

  • There is a well-authenticated story of two tigers being drifted down upon a camalote as far as Monte Video, where the beasts created great alam.1848, Lauchlan Bellingham Mackinnon, Steam Warfare in the Parana: A Narrative of Operations, by the Combined Squadrons of England and...
  • […] a camalote, a floating island composed of pleustonic vegetation.1998, International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, Proceedings:

Forms of camalote

pluralcamalotes

Origin of camalote

From Spanish camalote, from Classical Nahuatl camalotl.

Questions about camalote

What does camalote mean?
Camalote means a floating island composed of Pontederia plants.
How do you use camalote in a sentence?
There is a well-authenticated story of two tigers being drifted down upon a camalote as far as Monte Video, where the beasts created great alam.
What part of speech is camalote?
Camalote is a noun.
What is the plural of camalote?
The plural of camalote is camalotes.

Words near camalote in the dictionary

  1. camalexin
  2. Camalig
  3. Camaligan
  4. camallanid
  5. camallanids
  6. camalote
  7. Camambugan
  8. caman
  9. camanachd
  10. camanachds
  11. Camanang

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