máchica
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Noun
máchica f (uncountable)
- (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru) a type of flour made from ground barley
- 2016 September 4, “La desnutrición infantil, un mal que cuesta revertir”, in El Universo:
- Además, dice que no les gusta hacerse controles médicos y que aunque tienen a su disposición alimentos como harina de haba, máchica, panela, quinua o zambo, lo que hacen es venderlos y para alimentar a los niños optan por fideos y hasta por comida chatarra.
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Further reading
- “máchica”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
máchica on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
