cascalho

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English

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Etymology

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From Portuguese cascalho (a chip of stone, gravel).

Noun

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cascalho (uncountable)

  1. (South America) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand in which diamonds may be found.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cascalho”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From casca +‎ -alho.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cascalho m (plural cascalhos)

  1. gravel (small fragments of rock)
  2. (Brazil, slang) money, cash
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinheiro

Further reading

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  • cascalho” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913