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Ascoma vs Accoma - What's the difference?

ascoma | accoma |

As nouns the difference between ascoma and accoma

is that ascoma is an ascocarp while accoma is (rare) a large tree (possibly native to the island of.

ascoma

English

Noun

(ascomata)
  • An ascocarp.

    • accoma

    English

    Noun

  • (rare) A large tree (possibly native to the island of .
  • * 1802 , Ducœurjoly'' quoted by Pierre Rézeau, “Lexical aspects of French and Creole in Saint-Domingue at the end of the eighteenth century” in ''History, Society and Variation: In Honor of Albert Valdman (2006) ed. J. Clancy Clements, page 67
    • Accoma , n. m., a large tree suitable for building, a very hard wood.
  • * 1811 , Joshua Montefiore, The American Trader’s Compendium , page 143
    • DOMINGO, SAINT. This island is situated in the Atlantic ocean, fifty miles east of Cuba, and seventy miles east of Jamaica. The country is well stocked with cattle, oak, cedar, pine, Brazil wood, manchineal, the maho, and accoma tree.
  • * 1894 , Victor Hugo [aut.] and George Burnham Ives [tr.], Bug-Jargal , page 146
    • Continued the prisoner: ‘the chicaron'' and the ''sabiecca'' for a ship’s keel; the ''yaba'' for the knees; the ''tocuma'' for the ribs; the ''hacama'', the ''gaïac'', the cedar, the ''accoma ?—?’.