tupido
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuˈpido/ [t̪uˈpi.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ido
- Syllabification: tu‧pi‧do
Adjective
tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)
- thick, dense
- 1905, La chicharra y la rana:
- Entre las tupidas hojas de un árbol la chicharra chirriaba.
- Among the dense leaves of a tree, the cicada was chirping.
- 1918, La Hacienda:
- [Raza de combate malaya] […] Su plumaje es muy tupido y de color rojo o castaño y negro
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- dim, clumsy
Usage notes
For the sense thick, dense, it most commonly refers to hair (bigote tupido, vello tupido), plants (bosque tupido), or networks (red tupida)
Derived terms
Participle
tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)
- past participle of tupir
Further reading
- “tupido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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