huarango

Spanish

Alternative forms

• guarango

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua waranqu (“acacia”).

Noun

huarango m (plural huarangos)

1. American carob (Prosopis pallida), a tree found from Colombia to Peru

Further reading

• “huarango”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10