salicornia
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10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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salicornia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Planta (Salicornia europaea L., Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods) común de las marismas y saladares de Valencia. Se usa con fines medicinales por sus propiedades diuréticas y depurativas. Pronounced [saliˈkoɾnja].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salicornia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saliˈkoɾnja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for salicornia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [saliˈkoɾnja]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for salicornia 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 salicornia, spelled S-A-L-I-C-O-R-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Planta (Salicornia europaea L., Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods) común de las marismas y saladares de Valencia. Se usa con fines medicinales por sus propiedades diuréticas y depurativas.
- 2Planta quenopodiácea (Salicornia marítima).
- 3Planta rastrera (Salicornia ambigua) de las marismas españolas. Empleada para mejorar suelos salinos, forraje y alimentación humana.
- 4Planta halofila (Alacranera alacranera), cultivada con fines comerciales para verdura, fabricación de papel, forraje o productos de belleza.
- 5Planta halófila (Salicornia europaea), empleada como guarnición levemente salteada acompañando el pescado y otros platos.
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