Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
La mata (pepper)
English translation:
plant
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Spanish term
Spain
La mata (pepper)
Spanish to English
Social Sciences
Botany
Peppers
Hi,
I can't figure out what part of the plant is the "mata."
... las hojas de la mata de los pimientos que ellos mismos cultivan pican para elaborar un particular té...
I can't figure out what part of the plant is the "mata."
... las hojas de la mata de los pimientos que ellos mismos cultivan pican para elaborar un particular té...
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +3 | plant |
Stuart and Aida Nelson
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| 5 | Pepper shrub |
Eloísa Guerra Santos
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| 4 | Shrubby/leafy part (of the pepper) |
neilmac
|
Proposed translations
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Stuart and Aida Nelson
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
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plant
Mata in this context is another word for plant.
The leaves of the pepper plant.... are chopped to make a special kind of tea.
Mata
1. f. Planta que vive varios años y tiene tallo bajo, ramificado y leñoso.
2. f. Planta de poca alzada o tamaño. Mata de tomate, de claveles.
https://dle.rae.es/mata?m=form
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7 mins
Eloísa Guerra Santos
United States
United States
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United States
Saving good people from bad translations
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain) 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish, and 1 more.
Pepper shrub
Mata is not a part of a plant. It means shrub.
5 hrs
Shrubby/leafy part (of the pepper)
Mata usually refers to the leafy/shrubby part of plants, and is sometimes better translated as "thicket", but not in this context.
"The leaves of the shrubby part of the peppers they grow themselves are chopped to make a special tea....
"The leaves of the shrubby part of the peppers they grow themselves are chopped to make a special tea....
Example sentence:
The top, shrubby, part of those plants will continue to grow
The main, shrubby part of the plant is little more than 0.5m high
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