pich

[ pich ]

noun

1. a West Indian shrub or small tree, Calliandra portoricensis, of the legume family, having numerous leaflets and white or pink night-blooming flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pich¹

First recorded in 1790–95; from Latin American Spanish

Example Sentences

Hun Manet is married to Pich Chanmony, the daughter of a prominent Cambodian politician and has three children.

From Reuters

"Imagine a well-targeted missile hits a compressor station or some other infrastructure. You have to take that risk," said Martin Pich, head of trading at Czech firm MND.

From Reuters

Thon Nika, a 41-year-old shift manager at a local garment factory, was fully vaccinated in May, but tested positive at work and spent two weeks, without any Covid symptoms, in the Koh Pich quarantine center.

From New York Times

Phal Lot, a frail, 62-year-old Khmer Rouge survivor who lives with her children, arrived at the Koh Pich quarantine center with an old clunky phone, to call her family, and the clothes on her back.

From New York Times

Yet many of the patients in the quarantine center at Koh Pich had been vaccinated and were asymptomatic.

From New York Times