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hortofrutícola

fruit and vegetable (attributive)

adjective ohr-toh-froo-TEE-koh-lah Rare
Food & Drink Ingredients

Also means

horticultural

Usage Note

Hortofrutícola is a technical compound combining horto- (from huerto, 'vegetable garden') and frutícola (relating to fruit), used in agricultural, economic, and commercial contexts to describe the combined fruit and vegetable sector. It is invariable in gender — sector hortofrutícola, producción hortofrutícola — but takes a plural -s: productos hortofrutícolas. Learners will mainly encounter it in press releases and agri-business reporting from Spain and Latin America.

Examples

"El sector hortofrutícola exporta millones de toneladas."

Natural Translation

The fruit and vegetable sector exports millions of tonnes.

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