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barranca

  • /bəˈɹæŋkə/

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Borrowed from Spanish barranca.

noun barrancas

  1. A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine. “Well: hardly,” said the Consul, softly as before, casting a suspicious eye for his part in the other direction at some maguey growing beyond the barranca, like a battalion moving up a slope under machine-gun fire.

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"barranca." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/barranca. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{barranca_2026,
  title = {barranca},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/barranca},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}