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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuˈpido/
- Rhymes: -ido
- Syllabification: tu‧pi‧do
Adjective
tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)
- thick, dense
1905, La chicharra y la rana:Entre las tupidas hojas de un árbol la chicharra chirriaba.- Among the dense leaves of a tree, the cicada was chirping.
1918, “Raza de combate malaya”, in La Hacienda:Su plumaje es muy tupido y de color rojo o castaño y negro- Its plumage is very dense and red or brown and black
2015 September 24, “Iguala, la ciudad de los desaparecidos”, in El País:Comenzaron recorriendo los tupidos cerros cercanos para buscar cuerpos.- They began trawling the dense nearby hills to get some bodies.
2016 December 20, “Es hora de constituir a Venezuela”, in El Nacional:el tupido bosque de leyes- the thick forest of laws
- dim, clumsy
Usage notes
- For the sense “thick, dense”, it most commonly refers to hair (bigote tupido, pelo tupido, vello tupido), plants (bosque tupido), or networks (red tupida)
Derived terms
Participle
tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)
- past participle of tupir
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