kokama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokamas
Senses: examples: text: I have heard that the Matabili have no name for this animal; but the Bechuana term is "Kokama."
ref: 1876, The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, page 289:
text: The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring.
ref: 1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Mammals, page 326:
text: The Gemsbok (Oryx capensis) is sometimes called the kokama, is nearly four feet in height, and has South Africa as its habitat.
ref: 1891, The Living World, page 597:
glosses: A gemsbok.
examples: text: Kokama or amsul is the pulp of the fruit cleared of the seeds and dried in the sun and slightly salted. It is of a black colour and an oval shape. The epidermis is wrinkled. At the base of kokama the calyx and the remainder of the stalk are often seen.
ref: 1903, Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory, Nanabhai Navrosji Katrak, Materia medica of India and their therapeutics, page 80:
text: Kokum, Ratdmbi, the fruit kokama, amasula, brinddo, Bom. ; Brindao, Goa.
ref: 1883, Sir George Watt, Economic Products of India Exhibited at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84:
glosses: A mangosteen.
examples: text: Contrast of first and most recent regenerations of USDA Hopi kokoma and blue maize varieties conserved ex situ.
ref: 1999, Virginia D. Nazarea, Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/located Lives, →ISBN, page 140:
text: In addition, black (or purple) corn, known as kokoma, or Masau'u's corn, symbolically representing the direction of Above, is planted in May for the fall havest.
ref: 2011, Gary A. David, The Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore, →ISBN:
text: Among just five families, Whiting found the following grops were still grown on a regular basis: yellow, red, blue, white, violet, pink, and speckled flour and flint corns; purple-backed kokama corn; sweet corn; shite and gray lima beans; white and blue string beans; grease beans; pole beans; white tepary beans; peanuts; watermelons; casaba melons; honeydew melons; muskmelons; banana squash; cushaw squash; Hubbard squash; cucumbers; onions; chilies; tomatoes; turnips; red dye amaranths; cabbages; peaches; pears; apricots; apples; grapes; and cherries.
ref: 2012, Gary Paul Nabhan, Where Our Food Comes From, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: A variety of corn with purple kernels cultivated by the Hopi.
examples: text: Kokoma or guinea grass (Rottboelia exaltata) is a heavy cropping plant which makes good silage.
ref: 1954, Stephen John Watson, Abstracts on the Conservation of Grass and Other Forage Crops Up to 1939:
text: However, 10 of the 18 places are filled by grass species: 2 Cynodon dactylon (couch grass), 2 Echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard grass), 4 Echinochloa colona (awnless barnyard grass(, 5 Eleusine indica (crowsfoot grass), 6 Sorghum halepense (Johnson grass(, 7 Imperata cylindricata (blady grass), 11 Digitaria sanguinalis (summer grass), 13 Avena fatua (wild oat), 17 Paspalum conjugatum (sourgrass) and 18 Rottboellia cochinchinensis (kokoma grass).
ref: 2001, Charles A. Lamp, Stephen J. Forbes, J. W. Cade, Grasses of Temperate Australia: A Field Guide, page 17:
glosses: A variety of grass Rottboellia cochinchinensis.