camalote

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camalote

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From Spanish camalote, from Classical Nahuatl camalotl.

noun camalotes

A floating island composed of Pontederia plants. About ten A.M. another camalote of very large size, apparently two acres in extent, floated into the midst of us. […] There islands are sometimes very compact, and capable of sustaining a considerable weight. There is a well-authenticated story of two tigers being drifted down upon a camalote as far

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@misc{camalote_2026,
  title = {camalote},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/camalote},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}