Definition of Quena

1. a bamboo flute [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quena

quellers
quelling
quellio
quellios
quells
quellung
queme
quemed
quemely
quemes
quemful
queming
quemly
quena (current term)
quenas
quench
quenchable
quenchant
quenchants
quenched
quenched steel
quencher
quenchers
quenches
quenchest
quencheth
quenching
quenchingly

Literary usage of Quena

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... and the Road —A Visit from a Party of Comanches — Tabba-quena, a noted Chief — His extraordinary Geographical Talent — Indians set out for the ' Capitan ..."

2. Commerce of the Prairies: During Eight Expeditions Across the Great Western by Josiah Gregg (1844)
"... and the Road—A Visit from a Party of Comanches —Tabba-quena, a noted Chief—His extraordinary Geographical Talent—Indians set out for the 'Capitan Grande ..."

3. The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson (1916)
"... La quena, fabricada generalmente con una caña peculiar de las montañas del Perú, mide media vara de largo y dos tercios de pulgada de diámetro. ..."

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