fruta del diablo
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16 characters
Language
Spanish
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fruta del diablo is aSpanishphrase. It means: (Morinda citrifolia) Arbusto polinesio, cultivado como frutal y medicinal. Alcanza de 2 a 4 m de altura, con tallos glabro, hojas opuesta, elípticas a ovadas, de color verde brillante. Muestra infl... Pronounced [ˈfɾut̪a ð̞el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fruta del diablo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfɾut̪a ð̞el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for fruta del diablo is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɾut̪a ð̞el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fruta del diablo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 fruta del diablo, spelled F-R-U-T-A- -D-E-L- -D-I-A-B-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Morinda citrifolia) Arbusto polinesio, cultivado como frutal y medicinal. Alcanza de 2 a 4 m de altura, con tallos glabro, hojas opuesta, elípticas a ovadas, de color verde brillante. Muestra inflorescencias en densas cabezuelas seudoaxilares opuestas de flores sésiles, pequeñas, blancas, pentámeras. El fruto es un sincarpo ovoide, muy maloliente, que se consume en el Pacífico en ocasiones de escasez, y se emplea como medicina para varias afecciones. Rumores no probados le atribuyen efectos anticancerígenos.
- 2Fruto de esta planta, consumido como alimento o empleado como medicina.
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