mora

Example Sentences

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They have planted foods from their hometowns — the leafy greens papalo and chipilin, the herb hierba mora — sharing them with each other until one person’s traditions become everyone’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2023

The three dishes praised were the braised tripe with morels and mora peppers, the gooseneck barnacles with charred scallion aioli, and the fried pig head with preserved cherries and Walla Walla onions.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2022

It calls for a whole sheep, rubbed with a paste of lightly roasted ancho, cascabel and mora chiles, seasoned with cinnamon, cloves, cumin and oregano.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2021

Examples: a spreadable salsa with pecans and chipotle mora chiles, a chunky pineapple and jalapeño salsa and a rustic salsa made with avocados and tomatillos.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2020

Such seeds the sap of the mora raises into full bearing, when they, in their turn, are called on to support and give out their sap to different species of seeds, also dropped by birds.

From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous