Coquina

Word COQUINA
Character 7
Hyphenation co qui na
Pronunciations /kɒˈkiːnə/

Definitions and meanings of "Coquina"

What do we mean by coquina?

Any of various small marine clams of the genus Donax having variously colored, often striped or banded wedge-shaped shells, and found especially on sandy beaches along the Atlantic coast of the United States. noun

A soft porous limestone, composed essentially of fragments of shells and coral, used as a building material. noun

A rock made up of fragments of marine shells, slightly consolidated by pressure and infiltrated calcareous matter. noun

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida. noun

Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in US coastal waters. noun

A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells noun

Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States coastal waters.

A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building or road paving material.

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The word "coquina" in example sentences

Great White course, which was also overhauled in 2005 to include better-than-ever landscaping on top of its signature "coquina" crushed shells.

January 30th, 2010 at 2: 49 pm dbadass says: coquina ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's built around a coquina stone courtyard with waterfalls and ponds. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sources: Tile: coquina stone and sea glass, Bisazza ❋ Sara Ruffin Costello (2011)

Because it was built from coquina, a rare form of limestone and soft shells with small air pockets that absorbed shells rather than shattering, it is the oldest fort of its kind that was never breached. ❋ Mickey Goodman (2011)

It may not matter much to an individual coquina that it has been plucked from the edge of the surf, only to end up in boiling water. ❋ Doyle (2009)

But they have a variety of intertidal wetlands and sandy and rocky coasts of coquina (cemented molluscs). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Janet Reno, the former attorney general of the United States, has a coquina house in Kendall—Kendall is not an elegant section of Miami. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

In San Agustín, there were still missions with Franciscan friars in brown habits, and the mass was sung every day in a long coquina church with a New World baroque facade. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

A hundred years later, Spanish soldiers had raised mud and coquina forts along the coasts. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

Mole crabs, ghost crabs and coquina clams among other invertebrates are common in the site's intertidal zone. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Schist and gneiss, porous limestone and chunks of coquina. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)

Once she reached the cottage, however, she busied herself preparing the coquina chowder with her two friends. ❋ CAROLYN KEENE (1983)

This fort, which is in many respects like a great castle, is not built of ordinary stone, but of coquina, a substance formed by the accumulation of sea-shells which, in the course of ages, have united into a mass like solid rock. ❋ Various (N/A)

On Anastasia Island, opposite St. Augustine, there are great quarries from which the coquina stone is taken, and of this material nearly the whole town is built. ❋ Various (N/A)

Into this gray-white world of glimmering coquina and dew-wet palm rode presently the slim, brisk figure of a girl astride a fretful horse. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)

These multiplied greatly, and in places their shells formed thick beds of coquina. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

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