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Portuguese
Etymology
See Spanish tamujo.
Pronunciation
Noun
tamujo m (plural tamujos)
- (botany) Flueggea tinctoria
- (Azores) Myrsine retusa
1983, João de Melo, O Meu Mundo Não é Deste Reino:Nos sítios de passagem, descobriu as árvores da faia, do cedro e do vinhático, os grandes ovos de dinossauro das pedras que jaziam entre o tamujo, os fetos e a urze.- In the places of passage he discovered beeches, cedars, Madeira mahoganies, giant dinosaur eggs of stones which where lying between Myrsine retusa, ferns and heather.
Spanish
Etymology
Together with Portuguese tamujo from Vulgar Latin, an ancient Berber borrowing. Occurs in Latin Tamugadis ~ Thamugadi, name of a town on the Eastern Algerian coast the ruins of which are now known as Timgad.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taˈmuxo/
- Rhymes: -uxo
- Syllabification: ta‧mu‧jo
Noun
tamujo m (plural tamujos)
- (botany) Flueggea tinctoria
Derived terms
References
- Bertoldi, Vittorio (1948) “Quisquiliae Ibericae”, in Romance Philology (in Italian), volume 1, number 3, pages 192–198
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