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Word of the Day: Granate

By Gerald Erichsen, About.com

La palabra del día:

el granate

Pronunciación aproximada:

grah-NAH-teh (The Spanish r here is pronounced with a tap of the tongue against the front of the palate.) Listen

Significado:

granite, maroon (the color)

Ejemplo:

Existe la creencia errónea de que el granate es una piedra roja. De hecho, hay una variedad de colores que van desde púrpura, rojo, naranja, amarillo, verde, castaño, café y negro al incoloro.

Traducción:

There exists the erroneous belief that granite is a red rock. In fact, there is a variety of colors that go from purple, red, orange, yellow, green, chestnut, coffee-colored and black to colorless.

Aviso:

Granate can also be used as an invariable (unchanged in the plural form) adjective to refer to "maroon" as a color.

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