trapiche

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noun

A mill made of wooden rollers used to extract juice from fruit, originally olives, or from sugar cane.

OriginSpanish trapiche →
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Meanings

nountrapiche (plural trapiches)

plural trapiches

  1. A mill made of wooden rollers used to extract juice from fruit, originally olives, or from sugar cane.
  2. A star-shaped pattern of inclusions sometimes found in gemstones.

Origin

  1. Spanishtrapiche
  2. Englishtrapiche

Borrowed from Spanish trapiche.

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APA

trapiche. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trapiche

MLA

“trapiche.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trapiche. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trapiche,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trapiche.

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