acequiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /əˈseɪkɪə/, /əˈseɪkjə/

名詞

acequia (plural acequias)

1. An irrigation ditch, chiefly with reference to Mexico or the southwestern US. [from 19th c.]
   • 2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 3:

     Las Vegas—“The Meadows” in Spanish—was a hodgepodge of adobe houses, set among rustling cornfields irrigated by a muddy acequia that seeped from the Gallinas River.

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派生語

• acequia madre