a 1 l 1 a 1 m 3 o 1
5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
originBorrowed from Spanish álamo (“cottonwood tree”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0