canchalagua
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish canchalagua, from Mapudungun cachanlagua.
Noun[edit]
canchalagua (usually uncountable, plural canchalaguas)
- Any of several plants of the Americas similar to centaury, and formerly used like it for medicinal purposes, among them:
- Centaurium cachanlahuen, the original canchalagua
- Centaurium chironioides, a Mexican species
- Zeltnera venusta, a California species in the gentian family
- Schkuhria pinnata, a plant in the sunflower family native to South America and used medicinally
Further reading[edit]
canchalagua on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Mapudungun cachanlagua.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
canchalagua f (uncountable)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: canchalagua
Further reading[edit]
- “canchalagua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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