huisache

Spanish huisache

huisache (plural huisaches)

1. The needle bush or sweet acacia (Vachellia farnesiana), a thorny tree of the genus Vachellia, native to Mexico and Central America.

• huizache (Mexico)

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl huixachin (literally “many thorns”), from huitztli (“thorn”) + ixachi (“a lot, great in quantity”).

• IPA^(key): /w̝iˈsat͡ʃe/ [w̝iˈsa.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Syllabification: hui‧sa‧che

huisache m (plural huisaches)

1. the needle bush or sweet acacia (Vachellia farnesiana), a thorny tree of the genus Vachellia, native to Mexico and Central America
2. Any of various trees of the genus Havardia.

• biznaga

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