turba

Definitions of turba
  1. noun
    a large gathering of people
    synonyms: agolpamiento, caterva, gentío, muchedumbre, multitud
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    types:
    legión
    a vast multitude
    arruga, repelón
    a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
    type of:
    colectividad, grupo humano
    a group of persons together in one place
  2. noun
    a disorderly crowd of people
    synonyms: asonada, canalla, chusma, garulla, garullada, gentualla, gentuza, patulea, populacho, turbamulta
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    type of:
    nube
    a large number of things or people considered together
  3. noun
    any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
    synonyms: esfagno
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    type of:
    musgo, verdín
    tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
  4. noun
    partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
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