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taggiasca

taggiasca noun: an olive variety which originated near the town of Taggia in Liguria.

Noun (1)

taggiasca

  1. An olive variety which originated near the town of Taggia in Liguria.
    • Chic cosmopolitan design meets authentic pizza Napoletana in more than a dozen styles, including the red sauce capriciosa — with artichokes, Taggiasca olives and prosciutto cotto — and white-sauce speck and mascarpone.2026, Benjamin Epstein, The Irvine Standard: Dining from A to Z, page 4

Noun (2) capitalized: Taggiasca

Taggiasca

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of taggiasca.

Forms of taggiasca

alternative formTaggiasca

Origin of taggiasca

Borrowed from Italian

Questions about taggiasca

What does taggiasca mean?
Taggiasca means an olive variety which originated near the town of Taggia in Liguria.
What part of speech is taggiasca?
Taggiasca is a noun.

Words near taggiasca in the dictionary

  1. tagger
  2. tagger-along
  3. taggers
  4. taggers-along
  5. Taggerty
  6. taggiasca
  7. Taggie
  8. taggier
  9. taggiest
  10. tagging
  11. tagging along

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taggiasca (page history and authors); Taggiasca (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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