cascal

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From casca (“shell”) + -al. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw Hyphenation: cas‧cal === Noun === cascal m (plural cascais) bed (area with many clams) (archaeology) midden (prehistoric pile of bones and shells) Synonyms: (Brazil) berbigueira, casqueiro, (Santa Catarina, São Paulo) concheiro, (Brazil) sambaqui === Further reading === “cascal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “cascal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026