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tuera

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tuera

  1. third-person singular future of tuer

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Mozarabic طوره (ṭwrh /⁠tura, tuera⁠/), from Latin thora, phthora, from Ancient Greek φθορά (phthorá, destruction, death, damage).

Noun

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tuera f (plural tueras)

  1. colocynth, bitter apple (Citrullus colocynthis)
  2. monkshood (Aconitum napellus)
  3. annual scorpion-vetch (Coronilla scorpioides)

Further reading

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  • tuera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
  • Beltrán Llavador, Rafael (2020 May 16) “La «tuera» como fruto amargo de sufrimiento amoroso. Entre el Cancionero General (1511) y El rayo que no cesa de Miguel Hernández (1936)”, in Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos[1] (in Spanish), volume 10, published 2021, page 102 fn. 2
  • tuera on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es