Costa
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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)
- In botany, the central strand of a bryophyte leaf or thallus
- In entomology, the leading edge of the forewing in Lepidoptera and other winged insects in the Comstock-Needham system, as well as a part of the male clasper
- In vertebrate antomy, a rib
- 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 Grogiadis
- Costa-Gavras (born 1933), Greek-French filmmaker
[edit] Places
In general, "Costa" (or simila) is a common Romance toponym indicating a coastal location. Places named "Costa" without specifiers are:
- Costa, Haute-Corse, a commune on the island of Corsica
- Costa, Mozambique
- Costa, Orkney, a village on Orkney Mainland, Scotland
- Costa, Portugal, a parish in the Guimarães Municipality, Portugal
- Costa Head, a headland near the above Scottish village
[edit] See also
- Costas (disambiguation), a name of Greek origin
- Costal (disambiguation)
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