Definition of Calima

1. a dust storm [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calima

californidine
californite
californium
californiums
califs
caligation
caliginosity
caliginous
caliginousness
caligo
caligoes
caligos
caligraphic
caligraphies
caligraphy
calima (current term)
calimanco
calimas
calimocho
calimochos
caliology
calioplasty
caliorrhaphy
caliotomy
calipash
calipashes
calipee
calipees
caliper
caliper brake

Literary usage of Calima

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

1. The Sixth Division: military-paramilitary ties and U.S. policy in Colombia by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Joanne Mariner, Malcolm Smart (2001)
"To the contrary, the relationship between the Third Brigade and the AUC, which includes the calima Front as one of its principal forces, continued through ..."

2. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1826)
"E., the Rio calima, the Rio del N6 (above the village of Nao- nama), the Rio Tamana, which passes near the Novita, the Rio Ir&, the Quebrada de San Pablo, ..."

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