Portuguese

Proper noun

Coromandel

1. Coromandel (municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

English

Noun

coromandel ‎(plural coromandels)

1. 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.

Dutch

Etymology

from the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this material

Noun

coromandel m ‎(uncountable)

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