Definitions for fanegas

fanegas fa·ne·ga

Spelling: [fuh-ney-guh; Spanish fah- Fanegas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in fanegas (aaefgns).

Definitions for fanegas

noun

  1. a unit of dry measure in Spanish-speaking countries, equal in Spain to 1.58 U.S. bushels (55.7 liters).
  2. a Mexican unit of land measure, equal to 8.81 acres (3.57 hectares).

Origin of fanegas

1495-1505; Spanish Arabic fanīqah big bag

Examples for fanegas

A royal degree of 1619 disposed that “every one who sows and tills twenty-five fanegas of land each year, may use a coach.”

The wheat harvest gave two thousand bushels, but corn and beans were failures and barley only gave a hundred and twenty fanegas.

The average crop of a family may be estimated at six or twelve fanegas.

Ten years later 11,000 fanegas of all kinds of grain were gathered as a crop.

The figures represent "fanegas" which are, roughly, equivalent to acres.

The maize that lay in the other town was brought there, and when together the quantity was estimated to be six thousand fanegas.

Measuring by fanegas was then still in vogue in Mexico; a fanega equals about sixty-four kilograms.

He had this year sown, and altogether by Indian labor, three hundred fanegas of wheat.

The actual annual value of a quarrée of land planted in cacoa is ten fanegas, or 1¼ lb.

There was little agriculture, only five fanegas of wheat being harvested in 1772.

Word Value for fanegas
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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