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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]huerta (uncountable)
- The area of Murcia and Valencia with fertile ground.
- 2012, Douglas Hunter, The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 44:
- The city was situated in the huerta, some fifty square miles of rich alluvial fields with extensive irrigation canals, and was bordered by coastal lands dominated by marjals.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin hortus. Cognate with Ladino guerta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]huerta f (plural huertas)
- (large) garden, vegetable garden
- Synonym: huerto (smaller)
- orchard, cultivated land
- Synonym: vergel
- the area of Murcia and Valencia with fertile ground
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “huerta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eɾta
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