criollo

Speech parts

1. criollo - Noun

2. Criollo - Proper noun

Meaning

cocoa of superior quality

a Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish)

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Mexico is a country of mestizos, criollos, and indigenes Source: Internet

Forastero trees are significantly hardier and disease resistant than Criollo trees, resulting in cheaper cacao beans. Source: Internet

Despite these rebellions, the Criollo oligarchy in Perú remained mostly Spanish loyalist, which accounts for the fact that the Viceroyalty of Peru became the last redoubt of the Spanish dominion in South America. Source: Internet

In Venezuela, the ripe fruit is cut lengthwise, 3–4 mm thick, and fried until golden and sticky, as a very popular side dish called tajadas; they are an integral piece of the national dish, pabellon criollo. Source: Internet

From: Martínez Peláez, S. La Patria del Criollo, intepretation essay of Gautemala Colonial reality México. 1990sfn Day laborers pay day in Santa Rosa ca. 1890 according to the Day Laborer Regulations established by Barrios. Source: Internet

Krell, p. 155 California's first vineyard was located on the Mission grounds, with the planting of the " Mission " or "Criollo" grape in 1779, one grown extensively throughout Spanish America at the time but with "an uncertain European origin." Source: Internet

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