abrojo
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin aperī oculōs (“open [your] eyes!”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abrojo m (plural abrojos)
- (botany) thistle; thorn
- (weaponry) caltrop
- (in the plural, nautical) shoal
- Synonym: escollo
- (in the plural, figuratively) hardships
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “abrojo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28