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PARA-448-Planta-Espada: La Maupin

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“Planta espada” - lit. “sword plant,” referring to all plants of the genus Echinodorus. Also called the Amazon sword [plant], it is a popular freshwater aquarium plant, wild specimens naturally found growing totally submerged in swampy areas from the central United States as far down as Argentina.

Etymology: Spanish; from planta (“plant”) + espada (“sword”), referring to the plant's blade-like leaves. Planta is derived from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”), thought to be from *plantare “to drive in or push into the ground with the feet,” which, in turn, is from planta “sole [of the foot],” from the nasalized form of the proto Indo-European root *plat- “to spread”; espada, from  Latin spatha “[a type of] sword,” which comes from ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē), “broad blade [of wood or metal].” Planta espada is therefore a 1:1 literal translation from Latin to Spanish.

La Maupin is a name taken from a historical female swordfighter.