cordia
- plural of cor.
Example Sentences
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More and more dishes keep arriving in quick succession: the pleasantly bitter, curled shoots of the bird’s nest fern, cooked with wee beady-eyed fish and the pickled, caperlike buds of the cordia tree.
From Slate • May 8, 2017
Their wooden dishes and, bowls, out of which they drink their ova, are of the etooa-tree, or cordia, as neat as if made in our turning-lathe, and perhaps better polished.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
While her mare pawed and tugged at the traces, she took a deep breath and watched as a gust of wind sent the blood-red blossoms from a grove of cordia trees fleeing across the road.
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
