Definitions for barillas

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barillas ba·ril·la

Spelling: [buh-ree-uh, -reel-yee, - Barillas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in barillas (aabillrs).

Definitions for barillas

noun

1. either of two European saltworts, Salsola kali or S. soda, whose ashes yield an impure carbonate of soda.
2. the alkali obtained from the ashes of these and certain other maritime plants.

Origin of barillas

1615-25; Spanish barrilla, apparently equivalent to bar(ra) bar¹ + -illa diminutive suffix

Examples for barillas

The imports of barilla from the Canary Islands to this country are about 3,500 tons a-year.

barilla shot back that their family business, now in its fourth generation, was defending the traditional mother-father family.

Of late years the manufacture of kelp, like that of barilla, has been almost abandoned except as a source of iodine.

The barilla of the Canary Islands has been sold in England so high as 80l.

We had the good fortune to take a large ship laden with barilla, and a brig with tobacco and wine.

barilla, is the commercial name for impure sodium carbonate imported from Spain and the Levant.

Of manufactured soda, the variety most antiently known is barilla, the incinerated ash of the Salsola soda.

From Carthagena we were sent down the coast to a little place called Aguilas, where we began to take in a cargo of barilla.

Secondly advances the kingdom of Murcia, with its silver-mines, barilla, and palms.

The productions of Teneriffe, for export, are wine and barilla.