guayacán

See also: guayacan

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno waiacan.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaʝaˈkan/ [ɡwa.ʝaˈkãn]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ɡwaʝaˈkan/ [ɡwa.ʝaˈkãn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ɡwaʃaˈkan/ [ɡwa.ʃaˈkãn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ɡwaʒaˈkan/ [ɡwa.ʒaˈkãn]

• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: gua‧ya‧cán

Noun

guayacán m (plural guayacanes)

1. (Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua) any tree of the genus Guaiacum

Descendants

• → English: guayacan

Further reading

• “guayacán”, 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