tagasaste

English

A tagasaste tree.

Etymology

Borrowed from Guanche tagasaste.

Noun

tagasaste (uncountable)

1. Cytisus proliferus, a small evergreen tree commonly used to improve the condition of soils used for farming.

   Synonym: tree lucerne

   • 1990, R. J. Townsend, “Tagasaste forage production systems”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 33, page 632:

     Optimum spacing between tagasaste plants within rows must depend on site conditions, especially moisture and nutrient availability.

Translations

tree

• Catalan: ginestola de les Canàries f
• French: tagasaste, luzerne arborescente (fr) f
• German: Sprossender Zwergginster m
• Spanish: tagasaste m

Further reading

• Cytisus proliferus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Guanche tagasaste.

Noun

tagasaste m (plural tagasastes)

1. tagasaste (tree)

   Synonym: árbol de Lucerna

Further reading

• “tagasaste”, 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
• tagasaste on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es