coromandel

plural coromandels

1. countableuncountableSynonym of calamander.

   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.

   1917, Rudyard Kipling, “My Son's Wife”, in A Diversity of Creatures

   Synonyms: calamander

2. countableuncountableSynonym of Chinese violet.

   Synonyms: Chinese violet

1. A town on the Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, named after HMS Coromandel.
2. A mountain range in the Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand; in full, Coromandel Range.
3. A geographic region of southeast coastal India, bounded by the Krishna River to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Kaveri delta to the south, and the Eastern Ghats to the west; located in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; in full, Coromandel Coast.