fanegan.
1. A Spanish measure of quantity, usually equal to a bushel or a bushel and a half.
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c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lx/1, He promysed him of whete and barly xxv. Fanegas.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 372 Everie Hanega of corne that is ground in Fez.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. 285 The fanega costs here only ten or twelve rials, or two dollars.
1850 B. Taylor Eldorado (1862) vii. 65 We purchased half a fanega—a little more than a bushel—of wheat, for $5.
2. A measure for land.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > South American unit
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1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. xv. 478 In this country five thousand three hundred coffee-trees are generally planted in a fanega of ground.
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