tupido
Spanish
FWOTD – 13 January 2024
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuˈpido/ [t̪uˈpi.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ido
- Syllabification: tu‧pi‧do
Adjective
tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)
- thick, dense
- 1905, La chicharra y la rana:
- Entre las tupidas hojas de un árbol la chicharra chirriaba.
- Among the dense leaves of a tree, the cicada was chirping.
- 1918, “Raza de combate malaya”, in La Hacienda:
- Su plumaje es muy tupido y de color rojo o castaño y negro
- Its plumage is very dense and red or brown and black
- dim, clumsy
Usage notes
Derived terms
Participle
tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)
- past participle of tupir
Further reading
- “tupido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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