Cascabel Definition
kăskə-bĕl
noun
A small, round, medium-hot dried chili.
American Heritage
A projecting part behind the breech of a muzzle-loading cannon.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Cascabel
Noun
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cascabel
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cascabelsOrigin of Cascabel
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Spanish bell, rattle from Old Provençal cascavel from Vulgar Latin cascābellus probably from quassicāre to rattle, crack from Latin quassāre to shatter squash2 Sense 1, from the sound of the loose seeds in the dried fruit
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Spanish cascabel (“bell, rattle”).
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