cepa

strain

noun SEH-pah Rare

Also means

stock

Usage Note

Cepa has two main senses: in biology/medicine it is a strain of a virus or bacterium (una cepa del virus), and in viticulture it is a vine stock or grape variety (cepa de uva). The idiom de pura cepa ('of pure stock') means something is genuinely authentic or thoroughbred.

Examples

"Detectaron una nueva cepa del virus."

Natural Translation

They detected a new strain of the virus.

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