temu
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4 characters
Language
Spanish
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temu is aSpanishnoun. 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 15m de altura y su tronco unos 5dm de diámetro, pos... Pronounced [ˈt̪emu].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | temu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪emu] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for temu is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪emu]. 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 temu 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 temu, spelled T-E-M-U, 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 15m de altura y su tronco unos 5dm 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; su 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 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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