Definition of coquina in English:

coquina

noun kɒˈkiːnəkōˈkēnə

1mass noun A soft limestone of broken shells, used in road-making in the Caribbean and Florida.
Example sentencesExamples
- The best Doral course for hammer-down ball-chasing turned out to be the Great White, where the fairways are flanked by vast waste areas filled with crushed and compacted coquina shells - an ideal surface for Le Mans-style oversteering.
- The limestone changes from conchiferous sandstones to consolidated coquina limestone.
- The fairways are lined with pine straw, stacked sod wall bunkers and coquina sand waste bunkers.
- Camacho recognized two thick layers of coquina, containing silicified fossils, at the base and at the top of the section.
- Norman's trademarks - fast fairways, tight lies around the greens, no rough, transition areas of coquina shells, and sod-wall bunkers - are all on display.
- Blocks of coquina were quarried for the Castillo from pits in present-day Anastasia State Recreation Area and then ferried by barge across Matanzas Bay to St. Augustine.
- Mortar for the coquina blocks was made of lime from burnt oyster shells, mixed with sand and water.
- Merriam also noted that bioclastic beds occurred in the Susan Duster Limestone Member, and that the shell fragments were so numerous as to constitute a coquina.
- Constructed of coquina, a fossilized coral rock (also known as ‘black teeth’ or ‘iron shore’) and limestone, the cathedral dominates the city's Plaza de Catedral.
- Lothagam is a more restricted area and its strata are older-late Miocene to early Pliocene, overlain unconformably by Quaternary sands, gravels, and coquinas.
- A seawall comprising coquina faced with granite to the high water mark protected the eastern fort walls from the tides of Matanzas Bay.
- Four intensive collecting trips conducted in 2003-04 yielded 153 species of plants in 129 genera of 61 families, including 56 species growing on the coquina walls of the fortress.
- Water seeping through the coquina walls evidently provides adequate moisture and nutrients for these mosses and vascular plants.
2A small bivalve mollusc with a wedge-shaped shell which has a wide variety of colours and patterns.
Genus Donax, family Donacidae: several species
Example sentencesExamples
- The angled brooms that first come in contact with the coquina shells loosen them and then the second set of brooms, which aren't angled, provides the finishing touches to a smooth and well-maintained waste bunker.
- In its place are acres of crushed coquina - shell waste areas, tall sandy moguls and stretches of pine straw beneath scattered pines.
- Florida coquina clams normally are not exploited as a food resource by humans today; however, archaeological sites in northeastern Florida attest to the fact that preColumbian people consumed vast quantities of coquina clams.
- Bullen and Sleight analyzed the shellfish content of Green Mound and reported that it was comprised of shells of oyster, clam, coquina and other species of shellfish.
- I walked the tide line to find the morning's washed-up gifts; stepped carefully between jellyfish the size of dinner plates; dug for escaping mole crabs and wiggling coquinas in hand-made tidal pools.
- But one of the most familiar inhabitants that stays up near the action is a small clam known on Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico beaches as the coquina and on the Pacific coast as the bean, or wedge, clam.
- Razor Clams, coquina, and other shellfish we no longer use today, were dug at the tide line.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Spanish, literally 'cockle', based on Latin concha (see conch).

Definition of coquina in US English:

coquina

nounkōˈkēnə

1A soft limestone of broken shells, used in road-making in the Caribbean and Florida.
Example sentencesExamples
- Water seeping through the coquina walls evidently provides adequate moisture and nutrients for these mosses and vascular plants.
- Camacho recognized two thick layers of coquina, containing silicified fossils, at the base and at the top of the section.
- Blocks of coquina were quarried for the Castillo from pits in present-day Anastasia State Recreation Area and then ferried by barge across Matanzas Bay to St. Augustine.
- Lothagam is a more restricted area and its strata are older-late Miocene to early Pliocene, overlain unconformably by Quaternary sands, gravels, and coquinas.
- The best Doral course for hammer-down ball-chasing turned out to be the Great White, where the fairways are flanked by vast waste areas filled with crushed and compacted coquina shells - an ideal surface for Le Mans-style oversteering.
- The limestone changes from conchiferous sandstones to consolidated coquina limestone.
- A seawall comprising coquina faced with granite to the high water mark protected the eastern fort walls from the tides of Matanzas Bay.
- Mortar for the coquina blocks was made of lime from burnt oyster shells, mixed with sand and water.
- Four intensive collecting trips conducted in 2003-04 yielded 153 species of plants in 129 genera of 61 families, including 56 species growing on the coquina walls of the fortress.
- Constructed of coquina, a fossilized coral rock (also known as ‘black teeth’ or ‘iron shore’) and limestone, the cathedral dominates the city's Plaza de Catedral.
- Norman's trademarks - fast fairways, tight lies around the greens, no rough, transition areas of coquina shells, and sod-wall bunkers - are all on display.
- Merriam also noted that bioclastic beds occurred in the Susan Duster Limestone Member, and that the shell fragments were so numerous as to constitute a coquina.
- The fairways are lined with pine straw, stacked sod wall bunkers and coquina sand waste bunkers.
2A small bivalve mollusk with a wedge-shaped shell which has a wide variety of colors and patterns.
Genus Donax, family Donacidae: several species, including the edible American coquina (D. variabilis)
Example sentencesExamples
- Bullen and Sleight analyzed the shellfish content of Green Mound and reported that it was comprised of shells of oyster, clam, coquina and other species of shellfish.
- But one of the most familiar inhabitants that stays up near the action is a small clam known on Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico beaches as the coquina and on the Pacific coast as the bean, or wedge, clam.
- I walked the tide line to find the morning's washed-up gifts; stepped carefully between jellyfish the size of dinner plates; dug for escaping mole crabs and wiggling coquinas in hand-made tidal pools.
- The angled brooms that first come in contact with the coquina shells loosen them and then the second set of brooms, which aren't angled, provides the finishing touches to a smooth and well-maintained waste bunker.
- In its place are acres of crushed coquina - shell waste areas, tall sandy moguls and stretches of pine straw beneath scattered pines.
- Razor Clams, coquina, and other shellfish we no longer use today, were dug at the tide line.
- Florida coquina clams normally are not exploited as a food resource by humans today; however, archaeological sites in northeastern Florida attest to the fact that preColumbian people consumed vast quantities of coquina clams.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Spanish, literally ‘cockle’, based on Latin concha (see conch).

单词	coquina
释义	Definition of coquina in English: coquina noun kɒˈkiːnəkōˈkēnə 1mass noun A soft limestone of broken shells, used in road-making in the Caribbean and Florida. Example sentencesExamples The best Doral course for hammer-down ball-chasing turned out to be the Great White, where the fairways are flanked by vast waste areas filled with crushed and compacted coquina shells - an ideal surface for Le Mans-style oversteering. The limestone changes from conchiferous sandstones to consolidated coquina limestone. The fairways are lined with pine straw, stacked sod wall bunkers and coquina sand waste bunkers. Camacho recognized two thick layers of coquina, containing silicified fossils, at the base and at the top of the section. Norman's trademarks - fast fairways, tight lies around the greens, no rough, transition areas of coquina shells, and sod-wall bunkers - are all on display. Blocks of coquina were quarried for the Castillo from pits in present-day Anastasia State Recreation Area and then ferried by barge across Matanzas Bay to St. Augustine. Mortar for the coquina blocks was made of lime from burnt oyster shells, mixed with sand and water. Merriam also noted that bioclastic beds occurred in the Susan Duster Limestone Member, and that the shell fragments were so numerous as to constitute a coquina. Constructed of coquina, a fossilized coral rock (also known as ‘black teeth’ or ‘iron shore’) and limestone, the cathedral dominates the city's Plaza de Catedral. Lothagam is a more restricted area and its strata are older-late Miocene to early Pliocene, overlain unconformably by Quaternary sands, gravels, and coquinas. A seawall comprising coquina faced with granite to the high water mark protected the eastern fort walls from the tides of Matanzas Bay. Four intensive collecting trips conducted in 2003-04 yielded 153 species of plants in 129 genera of 61 families, including 56 species growing on the coquina walls of the fortress. Water seeping through the coquina walls evidently provides adequate moisture and nutrients for these mosses and vascular plants. 2A small bivalve mollusc with a wedge-shaped shell which has a wide variety of colours and patterns. Genus Donax, family Donacidae: several species Example sentencesExamples The angled brooms that first come in contact with the coquina shells loosen them and then the second set of brooms, which aren't angled, provides the finishing touches to a smooth and well-maintained waste bunker. In its place are acres of crushed coquina - shell waste areas, tall sandy moguls and stretches of pine straw beneath scattered pines. Florida coquina clams normally are not exploited as a food resource by humans today; however, archaeological sites in northeastern Florida attest to the fact that preColumbian people consumed vast quantities of coquina clams. Bullen and Sleight analyzed the shellfish content of Green Mound and reported that it was comprised of shells of oyster, clam, coquina and other species of shellfish. I walked the tide line to find the morning's washed-up gifts; stepped carefully between jellyfish the size of dinner plates; dug for escaping mole crabs and wiggling coquinas in hand-made tidal pools. But one of the most familiar inhabitants that stays up near the action is a small clam known on Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico beaches as the coquina and on the Pacific coast as the bean, or wedge, clam. Razor Clams, coquina, and other shellfish we no longer use today, were dug at the tide line. Origin Mid 19th century: from Spanish, literally 'cockle', based on Latin concha (see conch). Definition of coquina in US English: coquina nounkōˈkēnə 1A soft limestone of broken shells, used in road-making in the Caribbean and Florida. Example sentencesExamples Water seeping through the coquina walls evidently provides adequate moisture and nutrients for these mosses and vascular plants. Camacho recognized two thick layers of coquina, containing silicified fossils, at the base and at the top of the section. Blocks of coquina were quarried for the Castillo from pits in present-day Anastasia State Recreation Area and then ferried by barge across Matanzas Bay to St. Augustine. Lothagam is a more restricted area and its strata are older-late Miocene to early Pliocene, overlain unconformably by Quaternary sands, gravels, and coquinas. The best Doral course for hammer-down ball-chasing turned out to be the Great White, where the fairways are flanked by vast waste areas filled with crushed and compacted coquina shells - an ideal surface for Le Mans-style oversteering. The limestone changes from conchiferous sandstones to consolidated coquina limestone. A seawall comprising coquina faced with granite to the high water mark protected the eastern fort walls from the tides of Matanzas Bay. Mortar for the coquina blocks was made of lime from burnt oyster shells, mixed with sand and water. Four intensive collecting trips conducted in 2003-04 yielded 153 species of plants in 129 genera of 61 families, including 56 species growing on the coquina walls of the fortress. Constructed of coquina, a fossilized coral rock (also known as ‘black teeth’ or ‘iron shore’) and limestone, the cathedral dominates the city's Plaza de Catedral. Norman's trademarks - fast fairways, tight lies around the greens, no rough, transition areas of coquina shells, and sod-wall bunkers - are all on display. Merriam also noted that bioclastic beds occurred in the Susan Duster Limestone Member, and that the shell fragments were so numerous as to constitute a coquina. The fairways are lined with pine straw, stacked sod wall bunkers and coquina sand waste bunkers. 2A small bivalve mollusk with a wedge-shaped shell which has a wide variety of colors and patterns. Genus Donax, family Donacidae: several species, including the edible American coquina (D. variabilis) Example sentencesExamples Bullen and Sleight analyzed the shellfish content of Green Mound and reported that it was comprised of shells of oyster, clam, coquina and other species of shellfish. But one of the most familiar inhabitants that stays up near the action is a small clam known on Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico beaches as the coquina and on the Pacific coast as the bean, or wedge, clam. I walked the tide line to find the morning's washed-up gifts; stepped carefully between jellyfish the size of dinner plates; dug for escaping mole crabs and wiggling coquinas in hand-made tidal pools. The angled brooms that first come in contact with the coquina shells loosen them and then the second set of brooms, which aren't angled, provides the finishing touches to a smooth and well-maintained waste bunker. In its place are acres of crushed coquina - shell waste areas, tall sandy moguls and stretches of pine straw beneath scattered pines. Razor Clams, coquina, and other shellfish we no longer use today, were dug at the tide line. Florida coquina clams normally are not exploited as a food resource by humans today; however, archaeological sites in northeastern Florida attest to the fact that preColumbian people consumed vast quantities of coquina clams. Origin Mid 19th century: from Spanish, literally ‘cockle’, based on Latin concha (see conch).
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