yuyal

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝuˈʝal/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈʝal]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝuˈʝal/ [ɟ͡ʝuˈʝal]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃuˈʃal/ [ʃuˈʃal]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒuˈʒal/ [ʒuˈʒal]

• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: yu‧yal

Noun

yuyal m (plural yuyales)

1. area overgrown with weeds; weed patch
   • 2017 September 2, ““Cementerio volador”: había 66 kilos de mari”, in Crónica (Paraguay)‎^[1]:

     La valija estaba en un yuyal bien escondida, luego al ser revisada, los volái lo llevaron hasta la sede de los antinarcos.

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Further reading

• “yuyal”, 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