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Pronunciation
Verb
tuera
- third-person singular future of tuer
Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Mozarabic طوره (ṭwrh /tura, tuera/), from Latin thora, phthora, from Ancient Greek φθορά (phthorá, “destruction, death, damage”).
Noun
tuera f (plural tueras)
- colocynth, bitter apple (Citrullus colocynthis)
- monkshood (Aconitum napellus)
- annual scorpion-vetch (Coronilla scorpioides)
Further reading
- “tuera”, 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
- Beltrán Llavador, Rafael (2020 May 16) “La «tuera» como fruto amargo de sufrimiento amoroso. Entre el Cancionero General (1511) y El rayo que no cesa de Miguel Hernández (1936)”, in Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos (in Spanish), volume 10, published 2021, page 102 fn. 2
- tuera on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es