huisache
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
huisache (plural huisaches)
- The needle bush or sweet acacia (Vachellia farnesiana), a thorny tree of the genus Vachellia, native to Mexico and Central America.
Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl huixachin (literally “many thorns”), from huitztli (“thorn”) + ixachi (“a lot, great in quantity”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
huisache m (plural huisaches)
- the needle bush or sweet acacia (Vachellia farnesiana), a thorny tree of the genus Vachellia, native to Mexico and Central America
- Any of various trees of the genus Havardia.
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “huisache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- es:Trees
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