ballueca

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /baˈʝweka/ [baˈʝwe.ka]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /baˈʝweka/ [baˈʝwe.ka]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /baˈʎweka/ [baˈʎwe.ka]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /baˈʃweka/ [baˈʃwe.ka]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /baˈʒweka/ [baˈʒwe.ka]

• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: ba‧llue‧ca

Noun

ballueca f (uncountable)

1. slender wild oat, Avena barbata.

Further reading

• “ballueca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10