canavela

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin canna avena or canna vera.[1] Compare Spanish cañavera.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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canavela f (plural canavelas)

  1. cane (Arundo donax)
    Synonyms: cana, canaveira
    • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 205:
      Para esto val as reizes das canaveas e as reizes da ervatu pisadas e postas pisadas sobrela chaga
      For this is good the roots of the canes and the roots of the hog's fennel, pressed and placed over the open wound
  2. cane (stem)
    Synonyms: cana, canaveira
  3. villous deadly carrot (Thapsia villosa)
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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “caña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos