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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkisko/
- Rhymes: -isko
- Syllabification: quis‧co
Noun
quisco m (plural quiscos)
- Leucostele chiloensis, a cactus.
1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 38:El Cuero es un pulpo que se cría en el agua y tiene las dimensiones y el aspecto del pellejo de un animal vacuno perfectamente estirado. […] Para cazarlo, se echa en el agua un trozo del arbusto llamado en Chile quisco, que está enteramente cubierto de grandes y fuertes espinas. El Cuero lo envuelve y se hiere por todas partes, muriendo al fin.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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