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Spanish
Etymology
From polvo (“dust”) + -illo (diminutive suffix).
Noun
polvillo m (plural polvillos)
- dust
2017 September, “El residente de Miami que se enteró por redes sociales que el huracán Irma voló el techo entero de su casa”, in El Universo:El momento en que el techo de su residencia en Miami se desprendió como una hoja de papel, dejando una estela de polvillo y aterrizando sobre otras dos casas fue difundido en un video replicado cientos de miles de veces en redes sociales.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Latin America) blight (plant disease)
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