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quebrada

/keˈbɹɑːdə/

quebrada noun: a ravine or valley in Latin America.

Noun

quebrada (plural quebradas)

  1. A ravine or valley in Latin America.
    • Later, friends told me of the dangers of absorbing fright illness and mal aire from the quebrada, especially from eggs and other curing paraphernalia discarded there.2003, Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas L. Leatherman, Christine Greenway, Medical Pluralism in the Andes, page 209

Forms of quebrada

pluralquebradas
alternative formquebrado

Origin of quebrada

Borrowed from Spanish quebrada.

Questions about quebrada

What does quebrada mean?
Quebrada means a ravine or valley in Latin America.
What part of speech is quebrada?
Quebrada is a noun.
How do you pronounce quebrada?
Quebrada is pronounced /keˈbɹɑːdə/.
What is the plural of quebrada?
The plural of quebrada is quebradas.

Words near quebrada in the dictionary

  1. quebrachitol
  2. quebracho
  3. Quebracho crested tinamou
  4. Quebracho crested tinamous
  5. quebrachos
  6. quebrada
  7. quebradas
  8. Quebradillas
  9. quebrado
  10. quebrados
  11. quebrantamuro

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