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amtáparas a type of lupine, the silver lupine
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lexicon ID #351 | revised Aug 13 2014
amtáparas • N • a type of lupine, the silver lupine Lupinus albifrons (Schenck & Gifford, no. 126); also identified as the cotton-batting plant, Pseudognaphalium stramineum (ITIS).
Literally: 'dusty ones'
| Derivation: | ámtaap-ar-as |
| dust-having-PL |
Derivative (1)
amtapanás'anamahach "a type of lupine, the Miniature Lupine"
Source: WB 89.1, p.317; JPH pla 06:537, 567
See amtaap 'dust' See -ar2 'having' See -as 'plural'