Etymology

chuparosa

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Today it means: A flowering desert shrub, Justicia californica, native to southern California, Arizona, and northern Mexico. Full definition →

Spanish chuparrosa
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The story

  1. Spanish · borrowed fromchuparrosa“hummingbird”
  2. English todaychuparosa

From Mexican Spanish chuparrosa (“hummingbird”).

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