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Definitions for cay
keɪ, kicay
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Princeton's WordNet
key, cay, Florida keynoun
a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
Wiktionary
caynoun
A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.
Wikipedia
Cay
A cay ( KEE, KAY), also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans, including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef.
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cay
Cay is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of a coral reef. The term is used in the context of geography, particularly in the Caribbean sea. They usually occur in tropical environments, especially in the Atlantic Ocean.
Webster Dictionary
Caynoun
see Key, a ledge
Wikidata
Cay
A cay, also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of a coral reef. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, where they can provide habitable and agricultural land for hundreds of thousands of people. Their surrounding reef ecosystems also provide food and building materials for island inhabitants.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Cay
kā, n. a low islet, the same as Key. [Sp. cayo.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
cay
Little insulated sandy spots and rocks. The Spaniards in the West Indies called the Bahamas Los Cayos, which we wrote Lucayos. (See KEY.)
cay
[derived from the Spanish cayos, rocks]. What in later years have been so termed will be found in the old Spanish charts as cayos. The term was introduced to us by the buccaneers as small insular spots with a scant vegetation; without the latter they are merely termed sand-banks. Key is especially used in the West Indies, and often applied to the smaller coral shoals produced by zoophytes.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
CAY
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cay is ranked #50362 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Cay surname appeared 415 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cay.
40% or 166 total occurrences were White.
24.3% or 101 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
17.1% or 71 total occurrences were Asian.
14.7% or 61 total occurrences were Black.
2.4% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.4% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cay in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cay in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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- isla pequeñaSpanish
- کایPersian
- cayFinnish
- रेतीHindi
- pulau karangIndonesian
- ಕೇKannada
- cayLatin
- ilhotaPortuguese
- cayTurkish
- 沙洲Chinese
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