quebrahacha

Updated: May 5, 2025

They do see the top of a solitary tree with one branch broken off, rising above the plain at about two miles' distance; and they can tell it to be the well-known species called quebracha an abbreviation of quebrahacha, or "axe-breaker," so named from the hardness of its wood.

Mayne Reid - Gaspar the Gaucho: A Story of the Gran Chaco