Definitions for coquina

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coquina co·qui·na

Spelling: [koh-kee-nuh]

IPA: /koʊˈki nə/

Coquina is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in coquina (acinoqu).

Definitions for coquina

noun

1. 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.
2. any similar clam, especially of the genus Donax.
3. a soft, whitish rock made up of fragments of marine shells and coral, used as a building material.

Origin of coquina

1830-40, Americanism; Spanish: literally, shellfish, equivalent to Old Spanish coc(a) shellfish (Latin concha; see conch) + -ina -ine¹

Examples for coquina

He laughed, too: "You'll pay 'em if you take my map an' go to the coquina hills," he said.

I was down to the coquina country, a-doin'—well, I was doin' rubes.

Houses in St. Augustine are built of coquina rock, which is simply a mass of broken shells held together by a lime cement.

The walls are built of coquina of no modern thickness, but as if designed to resist a siege.

Even the imported ones had much to learn about coquina, the natural shellrock peculiar to this section of Florida.

Presently he walked to the edge of the coquina quarry and looked down into it.

The fort and bastions are built of the same material as the houses of the town, coquina.

Perhaps because the girl by the coquina wall was young, slim, golden haired, and Greek.

There was no second block of coquina; Walter remained standing.

The Presbyterian church is a good, old-fashioned, well-preserved specimen of coquina walls.