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Definition of Capiz
1. Noun. Marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell.
Generic synonyms: Oyster
Group relationships: Genus Placuna, Placuna
Definition of Capiz
1. a bivalve mollusk [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capiz
Literary usage of Capiz
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1905)
"JC ROBBINS capiz. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS WE have just concluded our first year of
work in capiz, our youngest mission station. It has been a year full of shade ..."
2. Acts of the Philippine Commission, No.1-1800 (1904)
"AN ACT Extending: the time for the payment of the Innd tax In the Provinces of
Antique and capiz fur the year nineteen hundred and four until October first, ..."
3. Acts of the Philippine Commission, No.1-1800 (1902)
"281.] AN ACT amending section 1 of Act No. 196, authorizing the loan from the
insular treasury of twenty-five thousand dollars to the provinces of capiz. ..."
4. In the Land of the Filipino by Ralph Kent Buckland (1912)
"... RIDE TO capiz. seeing Mr. S. and Mr. M.; but the likelihood of having to accept
favors that I perhaps would never be in a position to return, ..."
5. Hand-book of Universal Geography: Being a Gazetteer of the World by Theophilus Carey Callicot (1853)
"capiz, a city of the Philippines, cap. of the isl. Panay, on its N. coast. P.
11145. capizZI, a town of Sicily, intend. Messina. P. 3400. ..."
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