Sand Dollar - Jamaica Villa Sand Dollar

Sand Dollar



During my day to day Blogging for Jamaica Villas by Jamaican Treasures I often come across villas with strange names, villas like Sea Wyf (named after a film made in Jamaica) Sol mar (Sea Sun)Anchor Listings and others that have me wondering why they came to have such names instead of Dunnroamin or 35 Acacia Way or whatever. I suppose if you have a villa in Jamaica then you would opt for the more exotic name, so when you come to send photos of your place in Jamaica to your family and friends, it adds to the allure (This is my exotic Jamaica villa, 34 Bilge way drive, Montego Bay! Nope! I don’t think so.)

One such villa is Sand Dollar. Sand Dollar? What an unusual name for a place, OK the sand bit I get, Jamaica is surrounded by sandy beaches but “dollar?”  It turns out that the villa Sand Dollar at the beautiful Silver sand gated community is named after this rather odd looking object in the video.

Heres what Wikipedia says; The term sand dollar (or sea cookie or snapper biscuit in New Zealand, or pansy shell in South Africa) refers to species of extremely flattened, burrowing echinoids belonging to the order Clypeasteroida. Some species within the order, not quite as flat, are known as sea biscuits. Related animals include the sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish.

I suppose calling your house Villa Pansy Shell or villa Clypeasteroida would be just as exotic. Anyway, now you know.

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