Lexicographical Neighbors of Biznaga
Literary usage of Biznaga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Dept. of Modern Languages, Harvard University (1900)
"... (2) of an occasional common noun like biznaga = pastinaca, which also passed
through the Arabic into Spanish (cf. Dozy and Engelmann, p. ..."
2. Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers by Thomas Philip Terry (1909)
"2 The biznaga, commonly called the barrel-cactus, is somewhat rare, and is noted
for a ... The different forms of the biznaga are little more than vegetable ..."
3. Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (1900)
"... (2) of an occasional common noun like biznaga = pastinaca, which also passed
through the Arabic into Spanish (cf. Dozy and Engelmann, p. ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Here is no mention made of the Customes of Horses: for after that biznaga was
lost there come few from Ormus, and the most part of them goe to Chaul, ..."
5. Physiological and Medical Observations Among the Indians of Southwestern by Aleš Hrdlička (1908)
"All the Indians in the Southwest are acquainted with this use of the biznaga.
The seeds of the chos-tha-stha-ne, a high, branching Opuntia, are used in the ..."
6. Afoot and Alone: A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures by Stephen Powers (1872)
"All tho ground is covered with autumn-gilded grass, as fine as eiderdown; there
are pretty bunches of silver-gray mint; and then there is the biznaga, ..."
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