▪ I. ‖ pico Obs.
(ˈpiko)
[Sp. pico: see peak n.2 II.]
A peak, the pointed top of a mountain; a conical mountain. (Originally applied to the Peak of Teneriffe: see peak n.2 5, pic1, pike n.3)
| 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 4 This high Pico rises from the middle part of the Isle [Teneriffe]. a 1691 Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 171 An exact relation of the Pico Teneriff. Ibid., These calcined rocks lie for three or four miles almost round the bottom of the Pico. 1692 Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 290 As high as the Pico of Teneriff. 1742 De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 3) III. 206 Yet there is one of them [Cheviot Hills] a great deal higher than the rest, which, at a Distance, looks like the Pico-Teneriffe, in the Canaries. |
▪ II. pico
var. pikau n.