TUMBO - Spanish open dictionary

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1º_ Overturning, somersault, grave or fall. 2º_ Large undulation of sea or terrain. 3º_ Common name of several curuba plants. 4º_ Puchero or stew with low quality meat that they cook in the barracks for the troops, or in the prison for the prisoners. By extension, any bad food preparation. It comes from the expression "tumbo de olla", for the last dump of ingredients in the pot (first the broth, then the vegetables and then the meat). See bodrio . 5º_ Tumbo , Tombo and El Tumbo is the name of several geographical places in Asia, Africa and America. 6º_ Inflection of the verb tumbar ("to fall, to turn to knock down"). See verbs/tumbo .

Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

In Colombia they are a kind of fruit. They can also be known as curubas or also as badeas. They are the names of very delicious fruits that belong to the Passifloraceae family. Its scientific names are Passiflora tripartite and Passiflora quadrangularis. The first is also known as curuba, taxo or tumbo and the second as giant tumbo, corvejo, motorro, parcha or quijón. It is a bending of badearing, which means passing a river through the water without using bridges. It also means squawking, hitting or crashing into something, sticking or crashing on either side and the other, going or advancing in zig-zag or swinging, swaying. Inflection of knocking down, which means to apear, knock down.

Meaning of tumbo