Spanish

a. (Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, Spain.

Spanish-bayonet (Bot.), a plant of the genus Yucca, found in some parts of the Southern United States, in New Mexico, and Arizona, having stiff, sharp-pointed leaves. — Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork. Ure. — Spanish broom (Bot.), a shrub of the genus Spartium, thickly set with verdant, flexible, rush-like twigs. — Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having a dark, reddish-brown color, which depends upon the sesquioxide of iron. — Spanish chalk (Min.), a variety of steatite; — so called because obtained from Arragon, in Spain. — Spanish cress (Bot.), a plant of the genus Lepidum (L. cardamines); a species of pepper-wort. Loudon. — Spanish elm (Bot.), a tree of the West Indies and Mexico, having a tough, elastic wood, of a fine grain; Cordia gerasacanthus. Baird. — Spanish ferreto (Paint.), a rich reddish-brown, obtained by calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles. Fairholt. — Spanish fly (Entom.), a brilliant green beetle, common in the south of Europe; the Cantharis vesicatoria. It is used for raising blisters. — Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant, the Moræa sisyrinchium of the south of Europe. Miller. — Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato; Convolvulus batatas. — Spanish red (Paint.), an ocherous red, resembling Venetian red, but slightly yellower and warmer. Fairholt. — Spanish stripes, a kind of woolen fabric. Simmonds. — Spanish white, originally a white earth from Spain, used in paints; at present chiefly applied to an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings.