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‖ coquina|koˈkina|
[Sp. coquina (Minsheu 1623) shell-fish, cockle, deriv. of OSp. coca = F. coque:—L. *cocca, by-form of concha mussel, shell.]
A soft whitish rock of recent formation in the West Indies and Florida (where it is used as a building material), made up of fragments of marine shells united by a calcareous cement.
1837J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 44 The quarries of Coquina stone. Ibid. 52 This river being choked up by the Coquina formation. 1883Pall Mall G. 20 Oct. 5/1 St. Augustine [Florida], a still older settlement..[with its] white coquina walls, quaint Peninsular houses with hanging balconies, etc. 1957P. Frank Seven Days to Never i. 9 A few hundred yards inland Highway AIA parallels the surf, but the coquina road is narrow, pocked.
▸ Any of several marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Donax (family Donacidae), with a wedge-shaped shell having many narrow, radial grooves in bands of various colours; esp. D. variabilis, of the North American Atlantic coast and the Caribbean. Also more fully coquina clam.
1905Coshocton Daily Age (Ohio) (Electronic text) 7 Jan. Its sand is composed largely of shells of the coquina clam, peculiar to this part of Florida. 1927Amer. Cookery 32 17/2 The coquina clam is found buried..along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas. 1959J. D. MacDonald Deadly Welcome iv. 62 She was digging up coquinas, those tiny brightly patterned clams..beneath the surface of the wet sand. 1963K. H. Seibel Joyful Christmas Craft Bk. vi. 108 (caption) Coquina shells decorate the frame. 1994Trav. & Leisure Dec. 78 This..Atlantic beach near St. Augustine is noted for its many intact shells, among them sunrays..and live coquina wedge clams. |
