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orxata

orxata is the alternative form of horchata.

Meaning of horchata

Noun

horchata (countable and uncountable, plural horchatas)

  1. A sweet beverage variously made with rice, chufa or morro seeds (or, historically, barley), water, sugar, and cinnamon, and sometimes with milk.
    • Manufacturers from the villages surrounding the capital of the region came each day to the city of Valencia with carts pulled by donkeys to sell fresh horchata, tiger nuts and barley water.2011, Miguel-Angel Galindo, Domingo Ribeiro, Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics: New Perspectives, Practices, and Policies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 66

Forms of orxata

pluralorxatas

Questions about orxata

What is orxata the alternative form of?
Orxata is the alternative form of horchata.

Words near orxata in the dictionary

  1. Orwellianistic
  2. Orwellianly
  3. Orwellism
  4. Orwoll
  5. ORWs
  6. orxata
  7. orxatas
  8. oryall
  9. oryalls
  10. oryctere
  11. orycteres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orxata (page history and authors); horchata (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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