acequia
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of acequia
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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An irrigation ditch, chiefly with reference to Mexico or the southwestern US.
“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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Etymology
From Spanish acequia, from Arabic الساقیة (“water conduit”), ultimately from Classical Arabic سَقَى (saqā, “to irrigate”). Doublet of sakia.
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