alheña
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6 characters
Language
Spanish
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alheña is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Ligustrum spp) Género de plantas oleáceas, en su mayoría arbustos y árboles pequeños de hojas perennes con flores pequeñas y fragantes en panículos, de cuatro pétalos. Pronounced [alˈeɲa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alheña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alˈeɲa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for alheña is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alˈeɲa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for alheña in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is alheña, spelled A-L-H-E-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Ligustrum spp) Género de plantas oleáceas, en su mayoría arbustos y árboles pequeños de hojas perennes con flores pequeñas y fragantes en panículos, de cuatro pétalos.
- 2(Ligustrum vulgare) Arbusto de 1,5m a 2,5m de altura. Pertenece a la familia de las oleáceas. Se distribuye por el contorno Mediterráneo, y por el norte y centro de Europa hasta Ucrania.
- 3Flor del mismo arbusto₂.
- 4Polvo a que se reducen las hojas de la alheña cogidas en la primavera y secadas después al aire libre. Sirve para teñir.
- 5Azúmbar, planta alismatácea perenne, de hojas con forma de corazón, flores blancas y fruto en forma de estrella de seis puntas.
- 6Roya o tizón; tipo de hongo que ataca ciertas especies.
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