Coat of arms of Dominica
| Coat of arms of Dominica | |
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| Details | |
| Armiger | Commonwealth of Dominica |
| Adopted | 1961 |
| Crest | On a ground proper, a Lion rampant Or |
| Torse | Argent and Azure |
| Escutcheon | Quarterly Or and Azure, a cross counterchanged of the field; in the first a coco proper; in the second a Dominican frog proper; in the third on a base barry wavy Argent and Azure, a one-sailed vessel proper; in the fourth a banana tree proper. |
| Supporters | Two sisseron parrots proper |
| Motto | Apres Bondie C’est La Ter (Kwéyòl: Besides God we Love the Soil) |
The coat of arms of Dominica was adopted on July 21, 1961. It consists of a shield with two guardian sisserou parrots bracing the shield atop of which is a raging lion. The quadrants of the shield depict a canoe, a banana tree, a palm and a frog of the native species known as the mountain chicken. Below the shield is the national motto: Apres Bondie C'est La Ter (After God the Earth).
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