kokama

plural kokamas

1. A gemsbok.

   I have heard that the Matabili have no name for this animal; but the Bechuana term is "Kokama."

   1876, The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, page 289

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   The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring.

   1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Mammals, page 326

   The Gemsbok (Oryx capensis) is sometimes called the kokama, is nearly four feet in height, and has South Africa as its habitat.

   1891, The Living World, page 597

2. IndiaA mangosteen.

   Kokum, Ratdmbi, the fruit kokama, amasula, brinddo, Bom. ; Brindao, Goa.

   1883, Sir George Watt, Economic Products of India Exhibited at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84

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   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.

   1903, Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory, Nanabhai Navrosji Katrak, Materia medica of India and their therapeutics, page 80

3. A variety of corn with purple kernels cultivated by the Hopi.

   Contrast of first and most recent regenerations of USDA Hopi kokoma and blue maize varieties conserved ex situ.

   1999, Virginia D. Nazarea, Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/located Lives, →ISBN, page 140

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   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.

   2011, Gary A. David, The Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore, →ISBN

   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.

   2012, Gary Paul Nabhan, Where Our Food Comes From, →ISBN, page 133

4. A variety of grass Rottboellia cochinchinensis.

   Kokoma or guinea grass (Rottboelia exaltata) is a heavy cropping plant which makes good silage.

   1954, Stephen John Watson, Abstracts on the Conservation of Grass and Other Forage Crops Up to 1939

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   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).

   2001, Charles A. Lamp, Stephen J. Forbes, J. W. Cade, Grasses of Temperate Australia: A Field Guide, page 17

1. alternativeAlternative form of Cocama.

   Therefore, the Kokama languages, including Kokama, Kokamilla, Omagua, and probably others, would be representatives of the riverine Arawaks who controlled much of the Amazon main branch.

   2006, Jonathan David Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero, Comparative Arawakan Histories, →ISBN

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   According to Cabral (1995), the origin of Kokama must go back to the late pre-Columbian periuod, when a group of Tupinambá speakers migrated in the late 15th century from the Atlantic coast inland to the upper Amazon, and came in contact with speakers of one or more other languages, possibly Arawakan.

   2012, Lyle Campbell, Verónica Grondona, The Indigenous Languages of South America, →ISBN

   Generally, stress in isolated words of two and more syllables is on the last syllable in the Tupi and Tupi-Guarani languages discussed here, with the exception of Chiriguano, Siriono, Yuki, Ava/-Canoeiro, and Kokama, where it is on the penultimate syllable.

   2014, Gale Goodwin Gómez, Hein van der Voort, Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America, →ISBN, page 278

plural Kokamas · plural Kocama

1. alternativeAlternative form of Cocama.

   The Kokamas looked disturbed when they arrived in Shoshone.

   1949, James Minoru Sakoda, Minidoka, page 354

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   Simultaneously, the Kokama Indians of the lower Ucayali region began to emigrate to the Brazilian Solim5es, where they established themselves among the Tukuna, though in separate localities.

   1952, Curt Nimuendajú, The Tukuna - Volumes 45-46, page 9

   Espírito Santo (Amazonas state), with an area of 33,849 has. for a population of 121 inhabitants, permanently occupied by the Kokama people.

   2006, Sille Stidsen, The Indigenous World 2006, →ISBN, page 194

   Influencing other ethnic groups and beyond The Ticuna project has already expanded to include teachers from two other ethnic groups, Kokama and Kaixana.

   2006, Good Practices on Indigenous Peoples' Development, →ISBN, page 160