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dúchas — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • heredity noun The passing of physical or genetic traits from parents to their children.
  • nature noun The physical world and everything in it — plants, animals, landscapes, and natural forces — as distinct from human-made things.
  • patrimony noun A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor.
  • quality noun The overall standard or excellence of something, as opposed to how much of it there is.
  • wildness noun The quality or state of being wild, untamed, or uncontrolled.

Senses

dúchas is used for these senses in English:

  • heredity Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
  • nature The essential or innate characteristics of a person or thing which will always tend to manifest, especially in contrast to specific contexts, reason, religious duty, upbringing, and personal pretense or effort.
  • patrimony A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor.
  • quality (countable) Something that differentiates a thing or person.
  • wildness The state or quality of being wild.

nature — full definition

  1. noun The physical world and everything in it — plants, animals, landscapes, and natural forces — as distinct from human-made things.
  2. noun A person or thing's essential character — the qualities that make them who or what they fundamentally are.
  3. noun The general type or category something belongs to.

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