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primavera

primavera adjective: describing a light vegetable sauce, especially one served with pasta.

Adjective

primavera (not comparable)

  1. Describing a light vegetable sauce, especially one served with pasta.

Noun

primavera (countable and uncountable, plural primaveras)

  1. (countable) Any of species Roseodendron donnell-smithii, of Central America.
  2. (uncountable) Wood of trees of this species, white mahogany.

Proper noun capitalized: Primavera

Primavera (plural Primaveras)

  1. A surname.

Forms of primavera

Noun
pluralprimaveras
Proper noun
pluralPrimaveras

Origin of primavera

From Italian primavera (“springtime”).

From Spanish primavera (“springtime”).

Questions about primavera

What does primavera mean?
Primavera means describing a light vegetable sauce, especially one served with pasta.
What part of speech is primavera?
Primavera can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near primavera in the dictionary

  1. primatomorphan
  2. primatomorphs
  3. primatophilic
  4. Primats
  5. primature
  6. primavera
  7. primaveral
  8. primaveras
  9. primaxial
  10. Primbee
  11. prime

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Adapted from Wiktionary: primavera (page history and authors); Primavera (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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