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comal

comal noun: a flat, pan-like clay or metal griddle used to cook tortillas or other foods.

comal: a flat, pan-like clay or metal griddle used to cook tortillas or other foods
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Noun

comal (plural comals or comales)

  1. A flat, pan-like clay or metal griddle used to cook tortillas or other foods.
    • A freshly ground masa tortilla, as it cooks on a comal, inflates as the steam inside pushes apart the sides and releases an intoxicating toasted corn aroma.2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Proper noun capitalized: COMAL

COMAL

  1. A programming language influenced by BASIC and Pascal.
    • Mr. Lindsey's letter in Vol. 5, No. 11 made some misleading claims for COMAL. He stated that COMAL, like BASIC, is free. Well, back in October of 1981, a price of $49.95 for a COMAL starter package was mentioned in Robert Baker's PET-pourri column in Microcomputing.1983 May 23, Willi Kusche, “COMAL claims are questionable”, in InfoWorld, volume 5, number 21, page 39

Forms of comal

pluralcomals
pluralcomales

Origin of comal

From Mexican Spanish comal, from Classical Nahuatl comālli.

Acronym of common algorithmic language, inspired by ALGOL (“algorithmic language”).

Phrases with comal

Questions about comal

What does comal mean?
Comal means a flat, pan-like clay or metal griddle used to cook tortillas or other foods.
What part of speech is comal?
Comal can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of comal?
The plural of comal is comals.

Words near comal in the dictionary

  1. comajors
  2. comaker
  3. comakers
  4. comakership
  5. comakerships
  6. comal
  7. Comal County
  8. Comalapa
  9. comales
  10. comalike
  11. comals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comal (page history and authors); COMAL (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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