Cantua

noun

Can·​tua

kan‧ˈtüə

: a genus of shrubs or small trees (family Polemoniaceae) having crowded, simple, short-stalked or sessile leaves, flowers in close terminal clusters, and a corolla with a slender tube much exceeding the calyx see cantuta

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Spanish cantú cantuta, from Quechua ccantu

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