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pasilla

/pəˈsiːjə/

pasilla noun: a variety of chili (a dried chilaca), used especially in sauces.

pasilla: a variety of chili (a dried chilaca), used especially in sauces
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Noun

pasilla (plural pasillas)

  1. A variety of chili (a dried chilaca), used especially in sauces.
    • Is it worth $9.99 to have someone buy and cook short ribs, shred them, season them with chipotle, arbol and pasilla chilies, mix them with slices of nopales (cactus paddles), fill two soft tortillas with the mixture and slather them with a rich sauce so you can have beef short rib enchiladas with...2007 April 18, Florence Fabricant, “A Serving of Kalderetang, and a Guy to Explain It”, in New York Times

Forms of pasilla

pluralpasillas

Origin of pasilla

From the Spanish pasilla, diminutive of pasa (“raisin”).

Questions about pasilla

What does pasilla mean?
Pasilla means a variety of chili (a dried chilaca), used especially in sauces.
What part of speech is pasilla?
Pasilla is a noun.
How do you pronounce pasilla?
Pasilla is pronounced /pəˈsiːjə/.
What is the plural of pasilla?
The plural of pasilla is pasillas.

Words near pasilla in the dictionary

  1. Pasila
  2. pasilalia
  3. pasilalies
  4. pasilaly
  5. Pasilingua
  6. pasilla
  7. pasillas
  8. pasillo
  9. pasimology
  10. pasiniazid
  11. Pasiocan

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