brebas

brebas
 n.— «While some figs offer one crop per year, others provide two. The crop of the season, call brebas (from the Spanish, meaning “first fig”) grows on the previous year’s wood and typically ripens earlier in the summer.» —“Flavorful figs grow great in the valley” by Sarah Robertson Democrat-Herald (Albany, Ore.) Sept. 4, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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