central
adjective
of or forming the center.
centrales
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pluralof central.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Celia imagines the cane she cuts being ground in the centrales, and its thick sap collected in vats.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
As at present organized, the force is divided into twenty-six brigades, one for each arrondissement and six companies, known as the reserve, formerly the brigades centrales.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by William Walton
Others, known as "colonos," are planters only, the crop being sold to the mills commonly called "centrales."
From Cuba, Old and New by Albert G. (Albert Gardner) Robinson
At that time the Museum sent out to the Écoles centrales of the different departments of France named collections made up from the duplicates, and in this sort of drudgery Lamarck took an active part.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
The two sulci centrales sive fissuræ Rolandi run straight to the border of the hemisphere, less deeply impressed than is normally the case, without forming an angle with each other.
From The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. by William T. Preyer
