This week's theme: words borrowed from Spanish.

cay (kay, kee) noun

   A small low island of coral, sand, etc.; key.

[From Spanish cayo (shoal).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=cay

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "Its terrain ranges from a myriad offshore islands, coral reefs and cays,
   white and black sand beaches, savannah, alpine meadows to the largest
   area of pristine rainforest outside the Amazon basin."
   Neil Hanson; Travel: Papua New Guinea; The Guardian (London);
   Mar 23, 2002.

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