Definition of Coquilla nut

1. Noun. Nut having a hard hazel-brown shell used like vegetable ivory.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Coquilla Nut

coqueluches
coquet
coquetries
coquetry
coquets
coquette
coquetted
coquettes
coquetting
coquettish
coquettishly
coquettishness
coqui
coqui frog
coquilla
coquilla nut (current term)
coquillas
coquille
coquilles
coquilles Saint-Jacques
coquimbite
coquina
coquinas
coquis
coquito
coquitos
cor-
cor adiposum
cor anglais

Literary usage of Coquilla nut

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"THE COQUILLA-NUT BEETLE.—Mr. Hugh Main, a beetle, hindwings, in the breadth and depth of colour of the transverse exhibited with the larva in it, ..."

2. The Natural History of the Raw Materials of Commerce: With a Copious List of by John Yeats (1878)
"... vast variety of trinkets and articles to imitate ivory. About 80000 of these nuts were imported in 1852. coquilla nut (Attalea funi/era ; natural order, ..."

3. Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-work, and Engineering by D. Appleton and Company, Oliver Byrne (1852)
"... n" gy descriptive The coquilla-nut is represented ш ff- represented, each containing^a ?»r1 я USA*11* wJ'h the exception of the two separate cagues the ..."

4. Bibliotheca nicotiana; a first catalogue of books about tobacco. together by William Bragge (1880)
"Coquilla-nut, carved all over ; at end grotesque head, with ivory teeth. [ 195.] Coquilla-nut, oval; Neptune and sea-horses on lid. [196. ..."

5. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Histological Series Contained by John Quekett (1850)
"A transverse section of a coquilla nut, which consists of a series of more ... A vertical section of the same coquilla nut, in which the cells are of more ..."

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