Nouns starting with S

• Spanish fly — Noun – English ～ green beetle of southern Europe
• Spanish paprika — Noun – English ～ a mild seasoning made from a variety of pimiento grown in Spain
• Spanish pointer — Noun – English ～ a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game
• Spanish elm — Noun – English ～ large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood
• spanish — Noun – English ～ the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain
• Spanish grunt — Noun – English ～ a kind of grunt
• Spanish Inquisition — Noun – English ～ an inquisition initiated in 1478 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries); "the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate power"; "Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition"
• Spanish oyster plant — Noun – English ～ a golden thistle of southwestern Europe cultivated for its edible sweet roots and edible leaves and stalks; its yellow flowers are used as a substitute for saffron
• Spanish garlic — Noun – English ～ European leek cultivated and used like leeks
• Spanish Guinea — Noun – English ～ a country of west central Africa (including islands in the Gulf of Guinea); became independent from Spain in 1968
• Spanish mackerel — Noun – English ～ medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
• Spanish rice — Noun – English ～ spicy rice with tomatoes and onions and green peppers
• Spanish chestnut — Noun – English ～ wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
• Spanish psyllium — Noun – English ～ plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative
• Spanish lime — Noun – English ～ tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
• Spanish cedar — Noun – English ～ tropical American tree yielding fragrant wood used especially for boxes
• Spanish bayonet — Noun – English ～ tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers
• Spanish moss — Noun – English ～ dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
• Spanish broom — Noun – English ～ erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers
• Spanish people — Noun – English ～ the people of Spain

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