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seudociencia
  15

Easier to pronounce version than pseudoscience ("doctrine pretending to be scientific"). See pseudo-, pseudo, science .

  
arnafe
  11

Variant of anafe ("stove, food heater") , which would actually be a dissimilation of alnafe.

  
keloke
  11

It is another variant of "q lo q" also used as a greeting, as mentioned in "klk manin", where a comma and accent seem to be missing.

  
amilasa
  10

An enzyme that degrades starch[/e into its building blocks. From the Latin amylum, i ("starch[") the suffix -asa.

  
acuaporina
  11

A protein that transports water across cell membranes. It is a word composed of the Latin aqua, ae ("water") porus, i ("pore, passage").

  
proteína
  14

Molecule present in cells, based on amino acids, and with elementary functions for life. The name has Greek origin, where 960; 961; 969; 964; 949; 953; 959; 962; ( prooteios ) means "fundamental, main".

  
hormona
  12

An organic chemical produced by a body to regulate or modify the activity of its tissues. There are specific hormones for each case. The word is inspired by the Greek 959; 961; 956; 969; 957; ( ormoon "excited" ) for the function they fulfill .

  
oxálico
  14

It is an acid found naturally in the sorrel plant. Hence it takes its name, which in Latin is oxalis, from the Greek 959; 958; 945; 955; 953; 962; ( oxalis "sorrel" ) 953; 954; 959; 962; ( -ikos "relative to" ) .

  
dióxido de carbono
  13

It is a waste gas in the combustion and respiration of living beings, whose formula is CO 8322; (carbon oxygen sub two) since it is formed by one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. See CO? ( CO 8322; ) dioxide.

  
rante
  11

In lunfardo it is a torator apheresis most used for "careless, disheveled".

  
burrero
  16

1º_ Who raises or guides donkeys, which in some way is related to them. 2º Something brute, crude, ignorant; with the qualities that are attributed to a donkey. 3º_ In lunfardo is the gambler and fan of turf, and everything related to horse racing. It is a derogatory calling thoroughbreds "donkeys".

  
rateada
  10

In lunfardo it is "to do rabona, to be absent from a place where it is obligatory to attend (especially the students to the school)".

  
cazzo
  14

It is not Spanish but Italian, but thanks to immigration it has a place in the lunfardo, where cazzo (catzo) brought the same meaning of "damn, penis", especially in an exclamation. There is no agreed etymology, although it is possibly a variation of the Lombard cazz ("ladle") which already had a profane meaning in some verses and expressions.

  
alpiste
  8

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.

  
la puebla
  12

Name of several geographical places in Spain (Murcia, Aragon, Galicia, Extremadura and the Balearic Islands), in El Salvador (Ahuachapan and Libertad), in Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras and the USA. See town .

  
isla de pascua
  12

Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean, today known by the local name of Rapa Nui ("Big Island"). The name Easter Island was chosen by Dutch captain Jakob Roggeveen, as his expedition spotted it on April 5, 1722, an Easter Sunday.

  
guinea ecuatorial
  10

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a Central African country. Its name comes from the Portuguese guine (name of the tribes south of the Senegal River) and Ecuador (geographical region on the middle parallel). See also Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Papua New Guinea, West New Guinea.

  
piñel de abajo
  14

Piñel de Abajo is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. The name is the Castilianization of the medieval name Penniel de Yuso, which was surely a fortification to the east.

  
piñel de arriba
  13

Piñel de Arriba is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. The name is the Castilianization of the medieval name Penniel de Suso, which was surely a fortification to the west.

  
burkina faso
  15

Burkina Faso is an African country, which until 1984 was called Upper Volta. The name is from Mossi-Diula language and means "homeland of upright men".

  






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