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jicara

jicara noun: a cup or bowl made from the fruit of the calabash tree.

Noun

jicara (plural jicaras)

  1. A cup or bowl made from the fruit of the calabash tree.
    • The four priests received the blood of the victim in four jicaras, or bowls, made from the shell of a certain fruit, and descending one after the other to the courtyard, sprinkled the blood with their right hands in the direction of the cardinal points.1883, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, volume 2, San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company

Forms of jicara

pluraljicaras

Origin of jicara

Borrowed from Spanish jícara.

Questions about jicara

What does jicara mean?
Jicara means a cup or bowl made from the fruit of the calabash tree.
What part of speech is jicara?
Jicara is a noun.
What is the plural of jicara?
The plural of jicara is jicaras.

Words near jicara in the dictionary

  1. jicama
  2. jicamas
  3. Jicaque
  4. Jicaquean
  5. Jicaques
  6. jicara
  7. jicaras
  8. Jicarilla
  9. jichimu
  10. Jichișu de Jos
  11. jick

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