coromandel

From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood.

coromandel (countable and uncountable, plural coromandels)

1. Synonym of calamander
   • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “My Son's Wife”, in A Diversity of Creatures:

     Rhoda took their battered hats, led the women upstairs for hairpins, and presently fed them all with tea-cakes, poached eggs, anchovy toast, and drinks from a coromandel-wood liqueur case.

From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood. The neuter gender suggests that use as a common noun may be a shortening of coromandelhout.

• IPA^(key): /koː.roːˈmɑn.dəl/
• Hyphenation: co‧ro‧man‧del

coromandel n (uncountable)

1. calamander, striped ebony (a heavy wood, brown in color with deep black streaks, yielded by a limited number of species in the genus Diospyros).

   Synonym: coromandelhout