coromandel

[kawr-uh-man-dl, kor-]

noun

1. the hard, brownish wood of a tropical Asian tree, Diospyros melanoxylon.

2. the tree itself.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coromandel¹

1835–45; after the Coromandel Coast ( def. ); calamander ( def. )

Example Sentences

She spent a weekend with other volunteers in the Coromandel Peninsula, just across the water from Auckland, and took photograph after photograph of the coastline.

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By then the third team, most likely, was laying low in the Coromandel Peninsula town of Thames, a spot scoped out by Christine Cabon months before.

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He was taken to the nearby town of Whangamatā on the Coromandel Peninsula, where he was treated for hypothermia and exhaustion.

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"Not a penny of my clients' money will find its way into these misbegotten so-called investments," said George Gagliardi, an investment advisor with Coromandel Wealth Management in Lexington, Massachusetts, who believes cryptocurrencies "have no underlying intrinsic value."

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The hundreds of people in hospitals and the bodies scattered across morgues in the days after the Coromandel crash spoke to the section of India’s population that depends on the railway.

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