tomillar

Spanish

FWOTD – 15 March 2018

From tomillo (“thyme”) + -ar.

IPA^(key): /tomiˈʝaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈʝaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
IPA^(key): /tomiˈʎaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈʎaɾ] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /tomiˈʃaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /tomiˈʒaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈʒaɾ] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
IPA^(key): /tomiˈaɾ/ [t̪o.miˈaɾ] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

tomillar m (plural tomillares)

a biome of Spain in which thyme plants predominate
- 2017 May 11, “Descubierta en el Anoia una nueva especie de langosta”, in El Periódico‎^[1]:
  En un primer momento, los naturalistas creyeron haber localizado una nueva población de una langosta conocida científicamente como 'Prionotropis flexuosa', que en Catalunya solo había sido documentada hasta entonces en el tomillar de Alfés (Timoneda d'Alfés), en el Segrià.
  At first, the naturalists thought that they had found a new population of locusts known scientifically as 'Prionotropis flexuosa', which in Catalonia had only been known until then in the tomillar of Alfés (Timoneda d'Alfés), in Segrià.