caguairán
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
caguairán m (plural caguairanes)
- (Cuba) quebracho (various trees with very hard wood)
- (Cuba, by extension) a tough or resilient person
- 2016 November 26, “Retrato Amado”, in Juventud Rebelde[1]:
- Y en el ovillo patriótico ha resultado hilo, mitad de barba recia, mitad de caguairán.
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Further reading edit
- “caguairán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014