jalapa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It contains a great deal of pungent salt, with a mixture of acidity, instead of earth and brimstone; it is a good cathartic, especially for the Negroes. Though at the present day, the jalapa is propagated in every part of America, yet it originally came from the city of Xalapa, from which it derived its name."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Botany.