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  • From spoon +‎ wood. spoonwood Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel. Trichilia havanensis, a Caribbean softwood. “spoonwood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged...
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  • Montserrat (category en:Mountains)
    territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean. Official name: Montserrat. A mountain range in Catalonia, Spain, near Barcelona, the site of a monastery...
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  • ghaut (category Caribbean English)
    ghaut (plural ghauts) (Caribbean) Alternative form of ghat (“steep ravine leading to the sea”) Runaway Ghaut in the Lonely Planet Guide Ghauts (pronounced...
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  • (obsolete) From Taíno hayiti (“land of lofty barrows or mountains”), which was the native name given to the whole island of Hispaniola. (UK, US) IPA(key):...
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  • berch (category Middle Dutch terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰerǵʰ-)
    Virgin Islands Creole: berg, bergi → Aukan: beligi → Sranan Tongo: bergi → Caribbean Javanese: bérgi Limburgish: berg “berch”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek...
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  • ghat (category Caribbean English)
    to 2400 feet above the sea, between the Eastern and Western Ghats (India) A mountain pass. (Caribbean) A steep ravine leading to the sea. (India) A burning-ghat...
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  • whitewood (category Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa)
    whitewoods) Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, as the tulip tree. Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree Coccoloba...
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  • Monserrate (category pt:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom)
    sɨˈʁa.tɨ/ Monserrate Montserrat (an island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean) A former parish of Viana do Castelo, Portugal...
    495 bytes (91 words) - 15:14, 30 October 2022
  • berg (category Afrikaans terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰerǵʰ-)
    beligi → Sranan Tongo: bergi → Caribbean Javanese: bérgi See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. berg inflection of bergen: first-person singular...
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  • block of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone, in which form it was traditionally exported from the Caribbean and Brazil from the 17th...
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  • patilla (category Caribbean Spanish)
    “watermelon”). Cognate of French pastèque and Portuguese pateca. patilla f (plural patillas) (Colombia, Venezuela, Caribbean) watermelon Synonyms: sandía...
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  • a Caribbean tree species in the legume family Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree species in the legume family Hypericum canariense, a species of St....
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  • rekenen (category Requests for translations of Middle English quotations)
    rekenkamer rekenkunde Afrikaans: reken Negerhollands: reken, rekend, reeken → Caribbean Javanese: rèken, ngrèken → Papiamentu: rek, reku, reken → Manado Malay:...
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  • Jean (1973 August) The Regional English of the Former Inhabitants of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains‎[1], University of Tennessee, Knoxville...
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  • tobacco (category Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa)
    The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from a Caribbean language such as Kari'na or Taíno or multiple of them...
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  • "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean. — USDA site beachiness Beachy Head unbeachy  ...
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  • sorrel (category Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa)
    Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels. The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa. A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas...
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  • marmot (category Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa)
    (plural marmotten) marmot, rodent of the genus Marmota alpenmarmot bosmarmot marmottenslaap Afrikaans: marmot → Caribbean Javanese: marmut → Indonesian:...
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  • balke (category Caribbean Hindustani terms in nonstandard scripts)
    (inherited) → Papiamentu: balki (from the diminutive) → Saramaccan: báíki → Sranan Tongo: barki, balk → Caribbean Hindustani: barki Limburgish: balk “balke”...
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  • Lindl. – Austral ladies tresses (southern Caspian Sea and Himalayan Mountains to the South-West Pacific) Spiranthes bightensis M.C. Pace (2021) – Atlantic...
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  • Times: Some of the world’s best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the lush canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls...
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  • escaped black of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person. [from 17th c.] 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon...
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  • das (category Caribbean Hindustani terms in nonstandard scripts)
      Afrikaans: das Negerhollands: dassie → Aukan: dasi → Caribbean Hindustani: dás → Caribbean Javanese: dhasi → Indonesian: dasi → Javanese: ꦝꦱꦶ (dhasi)...
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  • pine (category Caribbean English)
    resembles a member of this genus in some respect. (uncountable) The wood of this tree. Synonym: pinewood (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa...
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  • Someone of African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant). [from 18th c.] A native-born of Francophone...
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  • Negerhollands: rieg → Aukan: lei → Caribbean Javanese: rèi See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. rij inflection of rijden: first-person singular...
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  • bun (category Caribbean English)
    A squirrel. (dialect, archaic) The scut or tail of a hare. (dialect, archaic) A dry stalk. Caribbean pronunciation of burn. bun (third-person singular...
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  • black (category Caribbean Hindustani terms in nonstandard scripts)
    descendants of slaves, although there are a growing number of recent black migrants from the Caribbean and Africa. In Canada, black means people of African...
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  • akin to the one Zora Neale Hurston wrote of during the 1920s […] 2018, Tammie Jenkins, “From Harlem to Haiti: A Niggerati Renaissance in Caribbean Negritude”...
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  • bed (category Caribbean Hindustani terms in nonstandard scripts)
    of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed. 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes Among all chains or clusters of mountains where...
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  • palm (category Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa)
    Jean (1973 August) The Regional English of the Former Inhabitants of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains‎[1], University of Tennessee, Knoxville...
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  • belt (category Requests for review of Georgian translations)
    riem, broeksriem, gordel → Caribbean Javanese: bèlt See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. belt inflection of bellen: second/third-person...
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  • pas (category Caribbean Hindustani terms in nonstandard scripts)
    pas → Caribbean Javanese: layang pas → Indonesian: pas → Papiamentu: pas See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. pas inflection of passen:...
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  • kitchen (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pekʷ-)
    with the rigidity and discipline of the French kitchen, and now I was embracing American informality. 2011, Daniel Orr, Paradise Kitchen: Caribbean Cooking...
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  • armadillo (category Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa)
    maˈð̞i.ʝo] IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /aɾmaˈdiʝo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʝo] IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /aɾmaˈdiʎo/...
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  • biotic (category Word of the day archive)
    Sedimentology of the Manzanita Member of the Cherry Canyon Formation (Middle Guadalupian, Permian), Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas, page 98: The absence of fusulinids...
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  • sea (category Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa)
    body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea. The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea...
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  • Petjo: kop Skepi Creole Dutch: kup → Caribbean Javanese: kop → Indonesian: kop → Papiamentu: kòpi, koppi (from the diminutive, dated) → Sranan Tongo: kopi...
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  • have (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-)
    2002, Matt Cyr, Something to Teach Me: Journal of an American in the Mountains of Haiti, Educa Vision, Inc., →ISBN, page 25: His English is still in...
    39 KB (2,938 words) - 12:03, 28 October 2024
  • walk (category Caribbean English)
    coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees...
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  • lip (category Requests for review of Swahili translations)
    the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch...
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  • toepassen Afrikaans: pas Berbice Creole Dutch: pasi Negerhollands: pas → Caribbean Javanese: pas → Papiamentu: pas Borrowed from English pass. Equivalent...
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  • jar (category Word of the day archive)
    Press, →ISBN, page 46: Lucy Orrinsmith praised the charms of green glazed vases from the Aures mountains and Tunisian coarse clay and terracotta jars....
    30 KB (3,114 words) - 10:56, 26 October 2024
  • veld (category Word of the day archive)
    Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 387: Advance tovvards the Cond Bokke Veld, or cold country of Antelopes: mountains covered with ſnovv. 1879, Charles H. Eden, “A...
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  • time (category Requests for review of Thai translations)
    Bombay Time Borneo Time Buck Rogers time Calcutta Time Cape Verde Time Caribbean time Central Africa Time Central Daylight Time Central European Midsummer...
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  • de (category Caribbean English)
    of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN. de (African-American Vernacular, Bermuda, Caribbean,...
    105 KB (11,907 words) - 08:47, 4 November 2024
  • kooky (category Word of the day archive)
    box playin' in the jungle / No charge, absolutely free / Soft drinks bubbling down a mountain / To the Carabean[sic – meaning Caribbean] sea: / What A...
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  • spraddle (category Caribbean English)
    Caribbean (West Indies), US) (transitive) To spread apart (the legs). [from c. 1625–1635] 1988, David Quammen, “Faces Unlike Ours”, in The Flight of the...
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  • Wikipedia has an article on: thee Wikipedia From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic...
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  • wet (category Requests for review of Mandarin translations)
    Afrikaans: wet Jersey Dutch: wät Negerhollands: wet → Ambonese Malay: wet → Caribbean Javanese: wèt → Indonesian: wet → Madurese: ꦮꦺꦠ꧀ (wet) → Sranan Tongo:...
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  • box (category Word of the day archive)
    box crab busy box butter-box cakebox call-box cannon box cardboard-box Caribbean box jellyfish cartridge box cartridge-box cash-box cashbox cash box cat...
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  • man (category English terms of address)
    Dutch: mān Negerhollands: man → Virgin Islands Creole: mani (dated) → Caribbean Javanese: mang man Indicates that something is larger/stronger/... than...
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  • pig (category Mountain Koiari terms in nonstandard scripts)
    great pig of iron, erst used as part of the ballast of the brig, and poise it on the rail. The mold in which a block of metal is cast. The pig was cracked...
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  • dude (category Word of the day archive)
    clipping of doodle (“fool, simpleton, mindless person”), perhaps with reference to the fashionable “Yankee Doodle dandy” in the 18th-century lyrics of the song...
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  • bel (category en:Units of measure)
    rinkelbel rotorbel toeters en bellen   → Caribbean Javanese: bèl → Sranan Tongo: bèl Probably a variant of bal (“ball, round convex object”) bel f (plural...
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  • fellow (category Word of the day archive)
    off trolley cars. 1919 February 10, H[arold] A[lbert] Lamb, “Call of the Caribbean”, in People’s Favorite Magazine, volume XXIX, number 4, New York, N...
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  • historical) One of several stockaded mountain farms established, after the invasion of Jamaica by England in the late 17th century, by people of colour who...
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  • coco (category pt:Units of measure)
    Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti‎[1], page 52: I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut...
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  • is looked on as a sort of rude patois. Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France. Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica...
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  • limbo (category Word of the day archive)
    (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɪmboʊ/ (Caribbean) IPA(key): /ˈlɪmboː/ Rhymes: -ɪmbəʊ Hyphenation: lim‧bo The noun is derived from Middle English limbo...
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  • cucurucho (category Caribbean Spanish)
    their heads. (pointed hat): capirote (colloquial, Caribbean, Central America) the highest part of a tree, house, building, etc. 2011, Maricela Colón...
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  • norteño (category Requests for translations of Spanish quotations)
    Music: The Rough Guide. Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 470: At a party in an isolated mountain community...
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  • yardfowl (category Word of the day archive)
    Associated States of the Commonwealth Caribbean”, in Paul Sutton, editor, Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean: Continuing Aspects of British and French...
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  • loggerhead (category Word of the day archive)
    great amusement to all the boys in Stanley. The loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a bird endemic to the Caribbean and West Indies. 1863 October–November...
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  • and social obligations. 2018, Eric D. Duke, Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora: It also allowed competing islandisms in more...
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  • Green (2023) “balloon, n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang‎[1] ^ Richard Allsopp (1996) “balloon-juice”, in Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, page 75...
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  • ‘Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun’ Foundation, →ISBN, page 228: They both traveled the world, climbed the holy mountains of Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia...
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