Crossword clues for costa
costa
- ____ Rica
- ___ Brava, Spanish resort area
- __ Mesa, Calif
- Word before Brava or Rica
- The coast, to a Spaniard
- SpainÃs ___ del Sol
- Spain's __ Brava
- Rica or Brava lead-in
- Rica or Brava front
- Rib: Anat
- Part of the name of a Central American republic
- Land by the sea, in Saragossa
- Italian painter Lorenzo
- Film director Constantin ____ -Gavras
- Cruise line whose Concordia ran aground in January 2012
- Country, ... Rica
- Central American nation name
- Antony of Blue
- "Sunshine" folk singer Matt
- "Mr. Pitiful" Matt
- "Butterfly Rocket" Nikka
- ''Rica'' or ''Brava'' front
- --- del Sol, Spain
- --- del Sol
- -- Mesa, California
- ________ del Sol
- ____ Mesa CA
- ___ Rica, C.A
- ___ Rica (Central American country)
- ___ Mesa
- ___ del Sol (region in Spain)
- ___ Brava (region of Spain)
- __ Brava: Spanish tourist site
- Country’s expense of finally leaving Continent
- Country actor sharing top role in cinema appearance first of all
- Native of Central America, don't question my ability to act with you!
- Spain's _____ del Sol
- Met soprano Mary
- _____ del Sol (region in Spain)
- _____ Rica
- ___ Ricans
- Spain's ___ Brava
- ___ del Sol, Spain
- ___ Brava, Spain
- ___ Mesa, Calif. city
- La ___ (California resort and spa)
- ___ Brava (Spanish resort area)
- A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
- Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
- 2002 French Open winner Albert
- Riblike part
- Brava, Mesa or Rica preceder
- Ridge or rib
- Brava or Rica preceder
- ___ Rica, C.A.
- ___ Mesa, L.A. suburb
- Where caffeine's served two functions mostly
- ___ Mesa, California
- __ del Sol
- __ Rica
- --- Rica
- -- Rica (Central American country)
- Word with Rica or Mesa
- Word with "Rica" or "Mesa"
- Spanish seashore
- Spain's ___ del Sol
- Singer Mary
- San José, __ Rica
- Contra ___ (California county)
- California's ___ Mesa
- California's __ Mesa
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Costa \Cos"ta\ (k[o^]s"t[.a]), n. [L., rib. See Coast.]
(Anat.) A rib of an animal or a human being.
(Bot.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.
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(Zo["o]l.)
The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Spanish costa "coast," from same Latin source as English coast (n.). Used in Britain from 1960s in jocular formations (costa geriatrica, costa del crime, etc.) in imitation of the names of Spanish tourist destinations.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A rib. 2 (context biology English) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing. 3 # (context entomology English) The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Costa may refer to:
- Costa (surname), including origin of the name and people sharing the surname
- Costa, scientific term, from Latin costa " rib" (plural costae)
- Costa!, a 2001 Dutch film from BNN
- Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Award, a literary award in the United Kingdom
- Costa Coffee, a British coffee shop chain, sponsor of the award
- Costa Cruises, a leading cruise company in Europe
- Costa's Garden Odyssey, an Australian television gardening program hosted by landscape architect Costa Georgiadis
- Costa-Gavras (born 1933), Greek-French filmmaker
Costa , sometimes da Costa or Da Costa, is an Italian (particularly in Liguria, Piedmont and Sardinia), Portuguese, Galician, Spanish and Catalan surname. Because of colonization and immigration, it is found throughout Latin America, being particularly common in Brazil and Argentina. It is also a surname chosen by Jews, due to Roman Catholic conversions.
There is also an unrelated Lebanese 'Costa' surname.
In Italy, Portugal, Galicia and Catalonia it is derived from the Latin word COSTA, "rib", which has come to mean slope, coast, in Romance languages. In the rest of Spain it comes from Catalonia or from Galicia, being the Spanish equivalent Cuesta.
It may refer to:
- Afonso Costa, (1871-1937), Portuguese Prime Minister 1913-17
- Albert Costa, Catalan tennis player
- Aldo Costa, Italian Engineering Director of the Mercedes Formula One team
- Alberto Costa, various
- Alfredo Costa (–1908), a person who assassinated King Carlos I of Portugal and his eldest son Luis Filipe with Manuel Buiça in 1908
- Andrea Costa, Italian socialist activist
- António Costa, Portuguese politician
- Antonio da Costa Santos, Brazilian architect and politician
- Antony Costa, British singer
- Beatriz da Costa, interdisciplinary artist
- Benjamin Mendes da Costa, English-Australian philanthropist
- Carles Costa, Catalan tennis player
- Carlos Duarte Costa, Brazilian religious figure
- Celso Costa, Brazilian mathematician, discovered Costa's minimal surface, an embedded minimal surface in 1982
- Dave Costa (1941–2013), American football player
- Dave Costa (offensive lineman) (born 1978), American football player
- Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro, Brazilian politician
- Desiderio Costa, Angolan politician
- Diego Costa, Spanish-Brazilian footballer
- Don Costa, American pop music arranger and record producer
- Douglas Costa, Brazilian footballer playing for FC Bayern Munich, winger
- Emanuel Mendez da Costa, English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector
- Erminio Costa, Italian-born neuroscientist
- Fabio Costa, Brazilian goalkeeper
- Francesco Costa, Italian painter
- Frank Costa, Australian businessman and Geelong Football Club President
- Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
- George Da Costa (1853–1929), a Nigerian photographer
- Giacamo Costa (1919–2000), Italian-born Australian professional wrestler better known as Al Costello
- Giovanni Costa, Italian painter
- Isaac da Costa, Dutch Jewish writer
- Jason Costa, mixed martial artist from mississauga Ontario
- Jaume Costa, Valencian footballer
- Jay Costa, American politician
- Jean-Paul Costa, French judge
- Jim Costa, Portuguese-American politician
- João da Costa, Portuguese Jesuit
- Joan Costa-i-Font, Catalan economist
- Joaquim Costa Puig, Catalan basketball player
- Joe Costa, Australian footballer
- Johnny Costa, American jazz pianist
- Jorge Costa, Portuguese football player
- Joseph Costa, Luso-American aviation pioneer
- Larissa Costa, Brazilian model
- Ligia Maura Costa, Brazilian professor
- Lorenzo Costa, Italian painter
- Lúcio Costa, Brazilian architect and urban planner
- Luís Antônio Corréa da Costa (born 1966), Brazilian footballer better known as Müller
- Manuel da Costa, Portuguese footballer
- Manuel da Costa, Portuguese jesuit missionary
- Manuel Pinto da Costa, former president of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Sam Costa, Professional British gamer
- Marcos Costa, Brazilian boxer
- Mariana Bridi da Costa, known as "Mari", Brazilian model
- Mario Costa (diplomat), a Maltese diplomat and ambassador to Russia
- Martinho da Costa Lopes, East Timorese religious and political leader
- Mathieu de Costa, first recorded black person in Canada
- Matt Costa, American folk singer and songwriter
- Sir Michael Costa, English composer and conductor
- Michael Costa, Australian politician
- Moses da Costa, also called "Anthony da Costa", English banker
- Newton da Costa, Brazilian mathematician
- Nikka Costa, American singer
- Nuccio Costa, Italian television presenter
- Orazio Costa, Italian theatre pedagogist and director
- Oronzio Gabriele Costa, Italian zoologist
- Paolo Costa, Italian Member of the European Parliament
- Phil Costa, Australian politician
- Rafael Costa, Brazilian actuary
- Rebecca Da Costa, model, actress
- Renata Aparecida da Costa, aka Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
- Rex De Costa, Sri Lankan doctor and soldier
- Ricardo Costa, Portuguese filmmaker
- Robert Costa (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ronaldo da Costa, Brazilian long distance runner
- Rui Costa, Portuguese football player
- Sam Costa, British comic actor
- Stéphane Da Costa, French-Polish professional ice hockey player
- Uriel da Costa, Portuguese Jewish writer
- Viviane Costa, Brazilian water polo player
- Wimal Kumara de Costa, Sri Lankan actor
In corals, a costa (plural costae) is one of the vertical plates lying outside the corallite wall, a continuation of a septum (plural septa) which lies inside the wall. The costae may continue to the edge of the colony and in solitary species, such as those in the family Fungiidae, refers to the ridges on the underside of the coral.
Usage examples of "costa".
When she was this age, Beatrice Costa had pledged herself to Marty Anaheim and nothing after was ever the same.
Kelian was residing in the unknown and inaccessible Bodarks, not on Park Avenue in New York or some exotic hideaway in Costa Rica.
Costa was not unlikely the real founder, or, at the least, the strongest influencer of the Bolognese school.
Her husband, Nicky Brompton, heir to a dukedom, called himself a farmer and omitted to specify that the estates on whose income his family was maintained comprised three thousand arable acres in Gloucestershire and East Anglia, a hundred times as much in Costa Rica with two gold mines beneath, and a district of London where luxury apartments leased by lesser millionaires rubbed buttresses with i92os model tenements built by Brompton Trust.
Costa had met with many misfortunes, as he told Casanova, and had himself been defrauded.
And for that, we need to get them out into the open in an artillery kill zone, trap them there, kill them there, then race to liberate Chiriqui and that tip of Costa Rica and plug the road in from the rest of Costa Rica.
Sumatran, Brazilian, Columbian, Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, Ecuadorean, Madagascar, Jamaican .
Desarmoises, my party at Choisi, my trust in Costa, my union with the Renaud, and worse than all, my folly in letting myself play at faro at a place where the knavery of the gamesters is renowned all over Europe, followed one another in fatal succession.
Costa watched Xavier carefully, watched him turn to Giorgi and measure his words before speaking.
In fact, they were instead associated with the Kangs and the da Costas, both houses that were hereditary enemies of the Conrads.
Vernon was one such child, growing up in the Orangewood district at the south end of New Costa.
Madison Square Garden, with Regis Philbin performing the ceremony and Bob Costas conducting the postcoital interview?
Port Costa two days after Presley had left Bonneville and the ranches and made her way up to San Francisco, anchoring in the stream off the City front.
COSTAS: The problem on television is that almost everything is reduced to sound bites or quick segments and has to be drawn in primary colors.
In due timeand not overmuch time, considering the snaillike creep of progress among the Cuban bureaucracy, not to mention the vagaries of sea-borne communication and the exceeding delicacy of treating with such sworn enemies as the European interloping, excommunicant trespassers on lands that Rome had long ago given solely to Spanish-Moorish keepinga guarda costa from Cuba, an armed sloop, had arrived in the basin below El Castillo de San Diego de Boca Osa with a message from the Governor of the Indies noting that neither the Norse, the French, the Irish, nor the Portuguese would any of them admit to knowledge of this dreadful fire-arming and training of the savage indios .