alerce
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]alerce (countable and uncountable, plural alerces)
- The wood of the sandarac tree (Tetraclinis).
- The Chilean arbor vitae (Austrocedrus chilensis).
- 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 485:
- An alerce in southern Chile, older than the Bible but still putting forth seeds.
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Andalusian Arabic اَلْأَرْز (al-ʔarz), from Classical Arabic أَرْز (ʔarz, “cedar”).
Noun
[edit]alerce m (plural alerces)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Andalusian Arabic اَلْأَرْز (al-ʔarz), from Classical Arabic أَرْز (ʔarz, “cedar”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈleɾθe/ [aˈleɾ.θe]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /aˈleɾse/ [aˈleɾ.se]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾθe
- Rhymes: -eɾse
- Syllabification: a‧ler‧ce
Noun
[edit]alerce m (plural alerces)
- larch tree (trees of the genus Larix)
- the wood of the larch tree
- Fitzroya cupressoides, a species of cypress tree
- Synonyms: ciprés de la Patagonia, lahuán
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “alerce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
alerce on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Larix on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Fitzroya cupressoides on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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