Definition of Biznaga

1. bisnaga [n -S] - See also: bisnaga

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biznaga

bizarrest
bizarro
bizarros
bizatch
bizatches
bizazz
bizazzes
bizcacha
bizcachas
bize
bizes
bizet
bizets
bizjet
bizjets
biznaga (current term)
biznagas
biznatch
biznatches
bizonal
bizone
bizones
bizspeak
bizygomatic
bizygomatic breadth
bizygomatic breadths
bizzare
bizzes
bizzo
bizzos

Literary usage of Biznaga

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

1. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Dept. of Modern Languages, Harvard University (1900)
"... (2) of an occasional common noun like biznaga = pastinaca, which also passed through the Arabic into Spanish (cf. Dozy and Engelmann, p. ..."

2. Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers by Thomas Philip Terry (1909)
"2 The biznaga, commonly called the barrel-cactus, is somewhat rare, and is noted for a ... The different forms of the biznaga are little more than vegetable ..."

3. Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (1900)
"... (2) of an occasional common noun like biznaga = pastinaca, which also passed through the Arabic into Spanish (cf. Dozy and Engelmann, p. ..."

4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Here is no mention made of the Customes of Horses: for after that biznaga was lost there come few from Ormus, and the most part of them goe to Chaul, ..."

5. Physiological and Medical Observations Among the Indians of Southwestern by Aleš Hrdlička (1908)
"All the Indians in the Southwest are acquainted with this use of the biznaga. The seeds of the chos-tha-stha-ne, a high, branching Opuntia, are used in the ..."

6. Afoot and Alone: A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures by Stephen Powers (1872)
"All tho ground is covered with autumn-gilded grass, as fine as eiderdown; there are pretty bunches of silver-gray mint; and then there is the biznaga, ..."

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