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morillo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
morillo.
Principal English Translation: 

beam (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

moconponeroa de beinte morilos = is composed of 20 beams
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 440–441.