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La Ventosa Diidxazá Lexico-Botanical Dictionary: Example 296

Word senses:

xcuaana' bi'cu' yu'ba' This name is used to refer to at least three species of three different families. The first is <Castela erecta> of the Simaroubaceae family, an abundant, thorny shrub with hard leaves, orange flowers and red fruit. The second is a tree of the genus <Randia> of the Rubiaceae family. It reaches a height of 3 meters and produces a red fruit. The third is a species of the genus <Croton> of the Euphorbiaceae family. This is a shrub or robust herb that reaches a height of 60 centimeters. Its leaves have small glands at the base. It has green or yellow flowers, green fruit, and a transparent exudate. Those familiar with these plants note that dogs often urinate at the foot of them. Some say that dogs eat the fruit, perhaps seeking some medical benefit. However, in his <Guía Gráfico-Fonémica para la Escritura y Lectura del Zapoteco>, Eustaquio Jiménez Girón says that the fruit is poisonous to dogs. It is also reported that in the past, when the flora of La Ventosa was more robust, the cactus known as <bidxi dxiña> (or <biznaga> in Spanish, genus <Mammillaria>) was often found at the foot of these plants.

xcuaana' bi'cu' ca la? ridxelani lu ca casi ca lu ca layú nachuga lu ratiisi uriá ca dren ca la? ne layusi ri rigaani rudiinàni la?, nápani guiichi puntani ne ricá cadxi bandaga huiini stìni la? nalase la? naté peru cadi racadini narooba, regular bandaga huiini stìni, nin la nabata la? nalase casi ti manixubi ne ricá cadxi bola huiini xiñà luni ne nabé pa ro bi'cu'ni pa ximodo la? peru nabé runi llamarni atención laacame, nabé rixuunacame luni lu yaga huiini ca purti lu layusi nexheni

the xcuaana' bi'cu' can be found in dried fields, along the edge of irrigation canals, it grows at ground level and extends its branches, it has thorns at the tip and it grows small leaves, narrow, light in color, and it doesn't get large, its leaves are medium size, not wide, narrow, like the scorpion and it grows some small red balls, and whether the dogs eat it, how to say it, it attracts the dogs attention a lot, they [the dogs] poop on the plant because it grows at ground level

el dagamillo se encuentra en los terrenos tiesos, en cualquier orilla de los drenes, sólo crece al ras del suelo y extiende sus ramas, tiene espinas en la punta y da unos su hojita es delgada y pálida, no se hace grande, su hoja es regular, ni ancho, delgado como un alacrán y da unas bolitas rojas y, si lo comen los perros o cómo, pero llama mucho la atención de los perros, depositan su estiercol en la plantita porque crece al ras del suelo [Spanish]

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