How to pronounce tufa
American English pronunciation
TOO-fuh
- IPA
- /ˈtufə/
- Syllables
- TOO · fuh (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What tufa means
A spongy rock made by mineral water, as around hot springs
In a sentence: Tall towers of tufa rose out of the salty lake like strange castles.
Where it comes from: It comes from Italian, from a Latin word for a crumbly kind of stone.
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