semilha

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish semilla (“seed”), from Latin semen (“seed”), possibly from a label accompanying the first potatoes arrived in Madeira from the Canary Islands that was mistaken as identifying the name of the plant. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -iʎɐ Hyphenation: se‧mi‧lha === Noun === semilha f (plural semilhas) (Madeira) potato Synonym: batata ==== Related terms ==== semente f === References === === Further reading === “semilha”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026