coromandel
coromandel noun: synonym of calamander.
Noun
coromandel (countable and uncountable, plural coromandels)
- Synonym of calamander.
- 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.1917, Rudyard Kipling, “My Son's Wife”, in A Diversity of Creatures
- Synonyms:
- calamander
- Synonym of Chinese violet.
- Synonyms:
- Chinese violet
Proper noun capitalized: Coromandel
Coromandel
- A town on the Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, named after HMS Coromandel.
- A mountain range in the Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand; in full, Coromandel Range.
- A geographic region of southeast coastal India, bounded by the Krishna River 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 of coromandel
Forms of coromandel
| plural | coromandels |
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Origin of coromandel
From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood.
Words formed from coromandel
- Coromandel Coast
- Coromandel Peninsula
- Coromandel Range
- Coromandel Ranges
- Thames-Coromandel
Phrases with coromandel
Questions about coromandel
- What does coromandel mean?
- Coromandel means synonym of calamander.
- What part of speech is coromandel?
- Coromandel can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of coromandel?
- The plural of coromandel is coromandels.
Words near coromandel in the dictionary
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