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Meaning of alpiste



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In addition to the definitions given, in lunfardo is whiskey, but as a reference to homemade alcoholic beverages that are prepared by fermenting seeds. It also has a funnier use as "farewell for rejection or discard", for a rhyme with the word "you went". The original voice is Mozarabic 1575; 1604; 1576; 1610; 1587; 1578; ( to the pist "fodder"), although it is debated whether there is a contribution of the Latin pistus , a , um ("crushed , crushed"). See staple, tuba, pitorro, chinchibirra.

  



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Annual grass plant name . Name of the seed of this plant and whose cereal is used as food for songbirds, especially canaries. It is also used in human food. Its scientific name is Phalaris canariensis and it belongs to the Poaceae family. It is also called alpistera , oxtail, lamb corner, wheat or grain of the Canary Islands. Also in some parts it is called birdseed to the yantén , yantén mayor , scientific name Plantago major , of the family Plantaginaceae .

  










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