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Definition of Coquina

Coquina
Coquina Co*qui"na, n. [Sp., shellfish, cockle.] A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

Meaning of Coquina from wikipedia

- Coquina (/koʊˈkiːnə/) is a sedimentary rock that is composed either wholly or almost entirely of the transported, abraded, and mechanically sorted fragments...
- Coquina Beach is a beach in North Carolina, US, located in the Cape Hatteras National Seas****. It is located not far from the Wright Brothers National...
- The Liber de Coquina ("The book of cooking/cookery") is one of the oldest medieval cookbooks. Two codices that contain the work survive from the beginning...
- different parts of the world. In the southeastern U.S. they are known as "coquina", a word that is also used for the hard limestone concretions of their...
- Olson was a cargo ship originally built in Wisconsin in 1918 as the SS Coquina. Renamed in 1940, in August 1941 she was chartered by the US Army to transport...
- Paul Gilmore purchased 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land where present day Coquina Beach is, with the intent to build a film colony named Paul Gilmore’s Oriental...
- Chalk China clay Cinder Clay Coal Construction aggregate (sand and gravel) Coquina Diabase Gabbro Granite Gritstone Gypsum Limestone Marble Ores Phosphate...
- limits, while other communities on the island include St. Augustine Beach, Coquina Gables, Butler Beach, Crescent Beach, and Treasure Beach. Fort Matanzas...
- Gymnoscelis coquina is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was described by William Warren in 1897. It is found in Queensland, Australia. The species...
- first recorded recipe was set down in the early 14th-century Liber de Coquina (The Book of Cookery). It bore only a slight resemblance to the later traditional...