tamujo
Portuguese
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Noun
edittamujo m (plural tamujos)
- (botany) Flueggea tinctoria
- (Azores) Myrsine retusa
- 1983, João de Melo, O Meu Mundo Não é Deste Reino:
- Nos sítios de passagem, descobriu as árvores da faia, do cedro e do vinhático, os grandes ovos de dinossauro das pedras que jaziam entre o tamujo, os fetos e a urze.
- In the places of passage he discovered beeches, cedars, Madeira mahoganies, giant dinosaur eggs of stones which where lying between Myrsine retusa, ferns and heather.
Spanish
editEtymology
editTogether with Portuguese tamujo from Vulgar Latin, an ancient Berber borrowing. Occurs in Latin Tamugadis ~ Thamugadi, name of a town on the Eastern Algerian coast the ruins of which are now known as Timgad.
Pronunciation
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edittamujo m (plural tamujos)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Bertoldi, Vittorio (1948) “Quisquiliae Ibericae”, in Romance Philology[1] (in Italian), volume 1, number 3, pages 192–198
Further reading
edit- “tamujo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- es:Botany
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