Spanish Open dictionary by furoya

furoya
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Position	2	2
Accepted meanings	15171	2
Obtained votes	88	2
Votes by meaning	0.01	7
Inquiries	436854	3
Queries by meaning	29	7
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higo de pala: Prickly pear fig, fruit of the prickly pear or prickly pear.
albacora: 1º_ Breva or early fig, fruit of the tree Ficus carica ("fig tree") . 2º_ Name for swordfish or Xiphias gladius, also for albacore tuna or Thunnus alalunga.
higuera: Common name of the plant Ficus carica, whose fruit is fig.
moho: Threads of fungi that form a layer on a wet or decaying surface. By extension, it is also said of urine, verdin, rust layer or cardinal.
hongo oreja de puerco: It is the name of several fungi such as Gomphus clavatus, Lactarius indigo, Discina perlata or Hypomyces lactifluorum, which would not really be the fungus but a bacterium that especially parasitizes the Lactarius and gives them a reddish orange or brownish color. The name is because of the shape they take, which resembles a pig's ear.
urupe: Urupe is a genus of fungi containing only Urupe guaduae. See urupé ("woven tray, sieve").
hongo: 1º_ Organism that is fixed as a parasite, or feeds on decomposing matter or by symbiosis. Although it bears some resemblance to a vegetable, it reproduces by spores and lacks chlorophyll. It has different shapes, and a classic one is that of mushroom, such as hat or umbrella. From the Latin fungus, i with the same meaning. 2º_ Precisely because of the shape of the mushroom, the bowler hat is called 'mushroom'; and also to the characteristic smoke that a nuclear explosion creates.
tormenta de ideas: Actually this locution is a Spanish version of the anglicism brainstorming, which is a working method to share creative ideas in a group.
el otro barrio: It is a euphemistic expression for "the world beyond the grave, where we go after we die (according to some beliefs)". See "the afterlife".
rueda de la fortuna: 1º_ It is the name of a game of chance and the artifact that is used to choose a random winning option. It is a wheel or disc placed vertically that has written on its edge the names of different prizes, and that is rotated until it stops by itself in the position of one that will be chosen by fortune. Watch Roulette . 2º_ For some similarity in appearance and because both are found in fairs and amusement parks, it was also called 'Ferris wheel' to a mechanical game with chairs or gondolas attached to the perimeter of a large circular metal structure that when rotating vertically raised those chairs and their occupants to several meters giving a panoramic view of the place. See around the world , Ferris wheel , Moscow wheel , Chicago wheel , Ferris wheel . 3º_ For the above, it is a locution that refers to the unforeseen and unstable events where life takes us, sometimes up and sometimes down. 4º_ Name of a tarot card.
poner las cartas sobre la mesa: It is a fullera locution for "showing the cards that touched one in that hand", especially in poker, trick or games where you can fool the other players. Although it is used much more figuratively by "not hiding neither resources, nor intentions, exhibiting everything that may harm another". See menu, table .
tener un estómago de buitre: This locution is interpreted as "eat a lot, be gluttonous", although the original reference is for "eating everything, even rotten meat like the vulture, and not getting sick".
echarse las palomas: It is a locution that is used as "at the end of a fact or event", for the traditional closing show with "release of pigeons". Perhaps it also has the sense of "masturbating" in a male, or ending in a sexual relationship, but they would be like a vulgar twist of the original locution.
pelillos a la mar: This phrase is interpreted as "end of a dispute or discussion between parties, by mutual agreement". The legend gives its origin in ancient Greece, where there was the custom of settling differences (and even wars) by celebrating a banquet with lambs contributed by both sides, which were cut some strands of hair and thrown to the wind to take them to the sea, all to symbolize that with them their grudges went. Perhaps through the Romans, or later thanks to literature, in Spain appeared the gesture of pulling out a hair and blowing it from the palm of the hand with the expression "hairs to the sea" to end a confrontation. See pelito pa'la vieja .
caíllo: Vulgarism by cadillo or cardillo or cajillo, which are names for the abrojo (plant and its seed). See Sierra del Caíllo.
retemblío: Vulgarism by shaking, from shaking ("reiterate a tremor") .
sabeor: It is a vulgarism by knower ("knowing, who understands and knows, or thinks he knows").
achuchao: Vulgarized and perhaps childish version of achuchado, by "frightened" or by "incited", and that has its own interpretations such as "squeeze, harass, overwhelm".
buchá: Vulgarism by buchada ("puff" ) .
estartalao: Vulgarism by ramshackle (adjective and participle).