chanate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The farmer will hardly have sowed his wheat and maize fields when whole flocks of hungry chanates descend upon the land, scratch out the seeds, and eat them."
- "The black chanate birds were gathered, fluting their jangled morning songs under the pomegranates and figs as martin walked from the house."
- "“A chanate has come to pay us a visit,” doña Gertrudis said. [...] “It’s a black bird with red shoulders,”"
- "Pelaquillo's older brother was there. We called him Chanate, the name of a little black bird, because he was so dark."
- "I’m sippin’ on some chanate [coffee] right now."
- "The dominant tree, often to the exclusion of many others, is Colophospermum mopane, commonly known as mopane or chanate."
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish chanate, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tzanatl (“great-tailed grackle”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: chanate