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  • From spoon +‎ wood. spoonwood Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel. Trichilia havanensis, a Caribbean softwood. “spoonwood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged...
    354 bytes (27 words) - 02:59, 19 August 2024
  • (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):...
    8 KB (616 words) - 06:39, 20 August 2024
  • Montserrat (category en:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom)
    territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean. Official name: Montserrat. A mountain range in Catalonia, Spain, near Barcelona, the site of a monastery...
    3 KB (284 words) - 08:23, 2 June 2024
  • 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...
    715 bytes (75 words) - 12:10, 22 November 2023
  • 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...
    751 bytes (110 words) - 19:24, 17 March 2023
  • 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...
    2 KB (175 words) - 04:54, 19 August 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (270 words) - 15:59, 25 August 2024
  • 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...
    16 KB (1,531 words) - 04:32, 13 July 2024
  • 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...
    3 KB (156 words) - 13:15, 21 May 2024
  • patilla (category Caribbean Spanish)
    (baṭīḵa, “watermelon”). patilla f (plural patillas) (Colombia, Venezuela, Caribbean) watermelon Synonyms: sandía, albudeca → Ye'kwana: jatiya “patilla”, in...
    1 KB (163 words) - 20:29, 7 June 2024
  • a Caribbean tree species in the legume family Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree species in the legume family Hypericum canariense, a species of St....
    481 bytes (136 words) - 18:29, 8 September 2023
  • Jean (1973 August) The Regional English of the Former Inhabitants of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains‎[1], University of Tennessee, Knoxville...
    4 KB (266 words) - 09:33, 2 June 2024
  • "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  ...
    1 KB (162 words) - 04:02, 19 August 2024
  • 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...
    14 KB (414 words) - 07:54, 11 August 2024
  • 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”...
    2 KB (377 words) - 05:10, 11 August 2024
  • 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...
    9 KB (598 words) - 20:18, 30 July 2024
  • 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:...
    6 KB (308 words) - 09:48, 2 August 2024
  • Lindl. – Austral ladies tresses (southern Caspian Sea and Himalayan Mountains to the South-West Pacific) Spiranthes bightensis M.C. Pace (2021) – Atlantic...
    5 KB (468 words) - 01:34, 19 August 2024
  • Negerhollands: rieg → Aukan: lei → Caribbean Javanese: rèi See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. rij inflection of rijden: first-person singular...
    2 KB (278 words) - 14:54, 2 June 2024
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