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coquina
[ koh-kee-nuh ]
noun
- Also called pompano, butterfly-shell clam. a small clam, Donax variabilis, abundant in the intertidal zone of eastern and southern U.S. coastal beaches, having fanlike bands of various hues, the paired empty shells often spread in a butterfly shape.
- any similar clam, especially of the genus Donax.
- a soft, whitish rock made up of fragments of marine shells and coral, used as a building material.
coquina
/ kɒˈkiːnə /
noun
- a soft limestone consisting of shells, corals, etc, that occurs in parts of the US
coquina
/ kō-kē′nə /
- A soft porous limestone, composed of shells and fragments of shell and coral that are partially cemented by material that is high in calcium carbonate and has not completely hardened.
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Example Sentences
Their new coquina convent is pleasant, and the display of fine laces, made by their busy fingers, incomparable.
The walls are built of coquina of no modern thickness, but as if designed to resist a siege.
The Presbyterian church is a good, old-fashioned, well-preserved specimen of coquina walls.
In the middle of it stood a small fort, cunningly constructed of big blocks of coquina rock.
Presently he walked to the edge of the coquina quarry and looked down into it.
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