huisache
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
- huizache (Mexico)
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