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mashua

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mashua
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A root vegetable grown in the Andes, Tropaeolum tuberosum.

noun

A type of simple fishing vessel found on the coast of East Africa.

Etymology

From Spanish mashua, from an indigenous language.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

mashuas (plural) mashwa (alternative) machua (alternative) machwa (alternative) muchwa (alternative)

Questions

What does mashua mean?
A root vegetable grown in the Andes, Tropaeolum tuberosum.
Where does mashua come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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