Re: [CH] C-H Digest V5 #202 [Mirasol]

Jesse Guadiana (jguad1@mer.cioe.com)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:04:10 -0600

Chile-Heads Digest wrote:
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:10:58 -0800
> From: Brent Thompson <brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com>
> Subject: Re: [CH] Re: Rare Chiles; Greetings to all CHers 
> 
> > I've grown both Mirasol and Guajillo chiles, and both point down!
> 
> You've been cheated.  Mirasol is specifically listed in the literature as
> "pointing toward the sun"; they are supposed to be pointing upwards when
> mature (and I think even the name roughly translates to mean this).
> 
Si, si, seņor; kinda smoothly, actually: =^]
"mirar" = to look; "mira" is present tense.
"sol," of course, = sun. 
--> mirasol = looks at the sun.
Kinda like "parasol" i.e. sunshade in form of umbrella: in Spanish,
parar = "to stop," para being the present tense.

Enough, or I turn into Cheers' Cliff Claven.

Jesse G. el bilingue
jguad1@mer.cioe.com