palo colorado
Letters
13 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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palo colorado is aSpanishphrase. It means: (Blepharocalyx cruckshanksii) Árbol de la familia de las mirtáceas endémico de Chile y de un pequeño sector en el oeste de Argentina. Alcanza los 15 m de altura y su tronco unos 5 dm de diámetro, p... Pronounced [ˈpalo koloˈɾað̞o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palo colorado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpalo koloˈɾað̞o] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for palo colorado is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpalo koloˈɾað̞o]. 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 palo colorado 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 palo colorado, spelled P-A-L-O- -C-O-L-O-R-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Blepharocalyx cruckshanksii) Árbol de la familia de las mirtáceas endémico de Chile y de un pequeño sector en el oeste de Argentina. Alcanza los 15 m de altura y su tronco unos 5 dm de diámetro, posee una madera muy dura y una corteza lisa de color pardo rojizo, flores blanquecinas a modos de ramillete, frutos redondos con cubierta de color marrón obscuro con tonalidades rojizas, de sabor amargo.
- 2(Luma apiculata) Árbol siempreverde de la familia de las mirtáceas. Crece en los bosques templados de Chile y la Argentina, en especial junto a cursos de agua. Alcanza los 20m de altura, aunque lo más frecuente son 3 a 5m;corteza es de color castaño cuando el árbol es joven y anaranjado cuando es adulto; está cubierta por una capa de textura pilosa y sedosa que se desprende al contacto; hojas son simples, de forma redonda u ovalada; brillantes por el haz; flores hermafroditas en grupos de 3 a 5 unidades, blancas o levemente rosadas y aromáticas.
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