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quenas

quenas is the plural of quena.

Meaning of quena

Noun

quena (plural quenas)

  1. A traditional flute of the Andes.
    • One song the group performed on Thursday, “La Partida,” featured lovely bell harmonics from the guitars, a shifting pattern of cross‐rhythms on the guitar‐like charango, and a quena lead.1978 April 14, “Music: Inti‐Illimani, From the Andes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about quenas

What is quenas the plural of?
Quenas is the plural of quena.

Words near quenas in the dictionary

  1. queming
  2. Quemoy
  3. quena
  4. quenacho
  5. quenachos
  6. quenas
  7. quench
  8. quench'd
  9. quench-coal
  10. quench-coals
  11. quenchability

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