A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making
flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also Grenada cocos, or
cocus, and red ebony.
1. Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population. Carlyle. 2. (Bot.) Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.
To scat...