Definition of Macoya

1. macahuba [n -S] - See also: macahuba

Lexicographical Neighbors of Macoya

macks
macle
macled
macles
maclurea
maclureite
maclureites
maclurin
maco
macock
macocks
macon
maconnais
maconochie
macons
macoya (current term)
macoyas
macpalxochitl
macphersonite
macquartite
macra
macradenous
macrame
macrames
macrami
macramis
macrandrous
macraner
macraners
macrencephalic

Literary usage of Macoya

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

1. The Spanish Settlements Within the Present Limits of the United States by Woodbury Lowery (1905)
"At a distance of fifty leagues he came upon the village of macoya, ... and macoya sent him a message similar to that he had received from ..."

2. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1886)
"... and macoya; but those chiefs, fearing that he had come to demand reparation for the attacks on the Spaniards, fled at his approach. ..."

3. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1812)
"MACOURIA, a small river of the province and government of Guayana, in the part possessed by the French. macoya, a province of Florida in N. Ame- ricn, ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... a palm of the same tribe with the cocoa-nut, a native of the West Indies, and of the warm parts of America. It is called macoya. in Guiana, ..."

5. The Geology of the Corocoro Copper District of Bolivia by Joseph Theophilus Singewald, Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"Denegri states that in 1888 silver ores were no longer being produced and that the principal vetas were the I'macoya, the San Jose, and San Marcos. ..."

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