huerta

From Spanish huerta.

huerta (uncountable)

1. 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.

Inherited from Latin hortus. Cognate with Ladino guerta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈw̝eɾta/ [ˈw̝eɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eɾta
• Syllabification: huer‧ta

huerta f (plural huertas)

1. (large) garden, vegetable garden

   Synonym: huerto (smaller)

2. orchard, cultivated land

   Synonym: vergel

3. the area of Murcia and Valencia with fertile ground

• “huerta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014