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Tabasco

Tabasco

15 4.9
A state in southeastern Mexico on the Gulf of Campeche
  • proper noun
  • /təˈbæskoʊ/
translation icon : Tabasco
  • We have coffee and we produce cacao; together with the state of Tabasco, we produce one-third of the national output.
  • the state of Tabasco
  • Veracruz and Tabasco

And he invited me to go to to Tabasco, which is a county of Mexico, the southeast.

Examples

  • The second are small, polycultural, planted-shade farms in the lowlands of the state of Tabasco, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

    Academic text (2003)

  • In July, they visited the state of Tabasco, an area with a strong Mayan heritage.

  • And he invited me to go to to Tabasco, which is a county of Mexico, the southeast.

    The Art of Photography

  • Even in his home state of Tabasco, opinion on Lopez Obrador is divided.

  • Until 1977, this village in sweltering Tabasco state was a patch of misery surrounded by a swamp.

Compounds

Tabasco sauce
1 2.8

A hot sauce that uses aged red peppers and vinegar

tabasco pepper
  • Specialized
4.8

A small very hot red chili that people use to make hot sauce

tabasco plant
  • Specialized
6.8

A plant that grows red hot peppers used for hot sauce

Surface Forms

Tabasco main

Etymology

Tabasco comes from a local indigenous language that the Spanish kept when they named the land. So Tabasco is the name of the Mexican state in the southeast of the country.