culantrillo

Spanish

Etymology

From culantro +‎ -illo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʝo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kulanˈtɾiʝo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kulanˈtɾiʎo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kulanˈtɾiʃo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kulanˈtɾiʒo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝo
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎo
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃo
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒo

• Syllabification: cu‧lan‧tri‧llo

Noun

culantrillo m (plural culantrillos)

1. any of a number of plants
   1. Adiantum amplum, of Mexico and Ecuador
   2. Adiantum capillus-veneris (black maidenhair fern)
   3. Asplenium ceterach (rustyback)
   4. Lemna gibba (fat duckweed)
   5. Torilis japonica (upright hedge-parsley)

Further reading

• “culantrillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014