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Spanish
Etymology
From restojo, from Vulgar Latin *restuclu < *restucŭlum (compare Portuguese restolho, Aragonese restollo, Catalan rostoll, restoll, Occitan restolh, cf. also southern Italian dialectal restuccio), variant of *restupŭlum (compare Catalan restoble, Occitan restoble), from a verb *restupulāre, from stupula, alteration of Latin stipula.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rasˈtɾoxo/
- Rhymes: -oxo
- Syllabification: ras‧tro‧jo
Noun
rastrojo m (plural rastrojos) (usually in the plural)
- weeds
- chaff, cuttings
- stover
1883, Emilia Pardo Bazán, La Tribuna:De los verdes y gayos maizales sólo quedaban rastrojos.- All that was left of the gay green cornfields were the stovers.
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