Definition of Gordita

1. a stuffed and fried pocket of cornmeal dough [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gordita

gorbellies
gorbelly
gorblimey
gorblimy
gorce
gorceixite
gorces
gorcock
gorcocks
gorcrow
gorcrows
gordaite
gordiacea
gordiaceous
gordian
gordita (current term)
gorditas
gordius
gordonite
gore
gorebill
gorebills
gored
gorefest
gorefests
gorehound
gorehounds
gores
gorfly
gorge

Literary usage of Gordita

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"... Worm (gordita verrucosus) by Mr. Jeffrey Bell (pp. 364—5) ; Description of .1 new Variety of River-Crab of the Genus ..."

2. The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane by William Hazlitt (1851)
"... III. two islets of Sardinia, N. of gordita- num prom. IV. pagas, a village of Cilicia Camp., near Tarsus. V. portus, a port of Sardinia, s. bet. ..."

3. The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane by William Hazlitt (1851)
"... III. two islets of Sardinia, N. of gordita- mim prom. IV. pagus, a village of Cilicia Camp., near Tarsus. V. portus, a port of Sardinia, s. bet. ..."

4. Handbook of Zoology by Jan van der Hoeven (1856)
"... the intestines and elsewhere a white worm of this sort, convoluted spirally, is found, which LINNAEUS called gordita marinus, RUDOLPHI Filaria piscium. ..."

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