balsamina
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
balsamina is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Impatiens balsamina) Planta anual de la familia de las cucurbitáceas, con tallos de cerca de un metro de altura, sarmentosos y llenos de zarcillos trepadores; hojas pequeñas, recortadas, semejante... Pronounced [balsaˈmina].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balsamina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [balsaˈmina] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for balsamina is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [balsaˈmina]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for balsamina 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 balsamina, spelled B-A-L-S-A-M-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Impatiens balsamina) Planta anual de la familia de las cucurbitáceas, con tallos de cerca de un metro de altura, sarmentosos y llenos de zarcillos trepadores; hojas pequeñas, recortadas, semejantes a las de la vid, pedunculadas y de color verde brillante; flores axilares, dioicas, amarillas, encarnadas o blanquecinas, y fruto capsular, alargado, de color rojo amarillento, con semillas grandes en forma de almendra. Es planta americana, naturalizada en España.
- 2Planta perenne origínaria del Perú, de la familia de las geraniáceas, con tallo ramoso, como de medío metro de altura, hojas gruesas, alternas y lanceoladas, flores amarillas y fruto redondo que, estando maduro, arroja con fuerza la semilla en cuanto se le toca. Se emplea en medicina como vulneraria.
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