jicara

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noun

A cup or bowl made from the fruit of the calabash tree.

OriginSpanish jícara →
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Meanings

nounjicara (plural jicaras)

plural jicaras

  1. A cup or bowl made from the fruit of the calabash tree.

    The four priests received the blood of the victim in four jicaras, or bowls, made from the shell of a certain fruit, and descending one after the other to the courtyard, sprinkled the blood with their right hands in the direction of the cardinal points.

    1883, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, volume 2, San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company

Origin

  1. Spanishjícara
  2. Spanishjícara
  3. Englishjicara

Borrowed from Spanish jícara.

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Anagrams

Jacari
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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