Definition of Cavallas

1. cavalla [n] - See also: cavalla

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavallas

cavalcades
cavalero
cavaleros
cavaletti
cavalier
cavalier hat
cavaliered
cavaliering
cavalierish
cavalierism
cavalierisms
cavalierly
cavalierness
cavaliers
cavalla
cavallas (current term)
cavalletti
cavallies
cavally
cavalries
cavalry
cavalry bone
cavalry horse
cavalry sword
cavalryman
cavalrymen
cavalrywoman
cavalrywomen
cavansite
cavaquinho

Literary usage of Cavallas

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

1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... GRIFFITH The cavallas Body ovate or oblong, compressed, the back sometimes considerably elevated; mouth moderate or large, oblique; maxillary broad, ..."

2. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"There are thirty-six different species of the pompano family known in the Philippines. All of them are valuable commercial fishes. The cavallas (Caranx) are ..."

3. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"... C. das Palmas, and Ponta de cavallas (at the mouth of the Cavalla). " Crou " is written along the Kru Coast. ..."

4. The Voyage of the "Challenger.": The Atlantic; a Preliminary Account of the by Charles Wyville Thomson (1878)
"Fish are abundant round the island, and of many kinds— mullet, rock-cod, cavallas, and others. They are apparently good, for tropical fish, but of little ..."

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