different between waterleaf vs guinea

English

Alternative forms

• water-leaf

Etymology

water +? leaf

Noun

waterleaf (plural waterleafs or waterleaves)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.
2. (botany) Any plant of Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family.
3. A tropical plant (Talinum fruticosum), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.
4. (architecture) A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture
5. (paper technology) An absorbent unsized paper like blotters as opposed to slake-sized or hard sized papers.

Synonyms

• (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable): cariru, Ceylon spinach, Florida spinach, Lagos bologi, potherb fameflower, Philippine spinach, Surinam purslane, sweetheart

Derived terms

• ballhead waterleaf, ball-headed waterleaf
• blunt-leaf waterleaf, bluntleaf waterleaf
• Brown's waterleaf
• dwarf waterleaf
• Fendler's waterleaf
• great waterleaf
• largeleaf waterleaf
• Pacific waterleaf
• Virginia waterleaf
• waterleaf capital
• western waterleaf

Anagrams

• water flea, waterflea

English

Etymology

From Guinea, the country in West Africa, the coins originally being made of gold from the region and used for African trade, and the guinea fowl being found there.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ni/
• Rhymes: -?ni

Noun

guinea (plural guineas)

1. (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
   • 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type

     If I’m to tell the whole truth—and why not? I sure have the time!—I’ll have to start by saying I was born Richard Pinzetti, in New York’s Little Italy. My father was an Old World guinea.

2. (Britain, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...
3. Synonym of guinea fowl
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Brooding and Homing,” ^[1]

     The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin.

Synonyms

• (person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, wog, wop

Descendants

• ? Irish: gine
• ? Scottish Gaelic: gini
• ? Spanish: guinea
• ? Welsh: gini

Translations

References

• “guinea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Finnish

Noun

guinea

1. guinea (British gold coin)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?nea/, [?i?ne.a]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English guinea.

Noun

guinea f (plural guineas)

1. guinea (British gold coin)

Etymology 2

See guineo.

Noun

guinea f (plural guineas)

1. female equivalent of guineo

Adjective

guinea

1. feminine singular of guineo