piquillín

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pikiˈʝin/ [pi.kiˈʝĩn]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /pikiˈʝin/ [pi.kiˈʝĩn]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /pikiˈʎin/ [pi.kiˈʎĩn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /pikiˈʃin/ [pi.kiˈʃĩn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /pikiˈʒin/ [pi.kiˈʒĩn]

• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: pi‧qui‧llín

Noun

piquillín m (plural piquillines)

1. Condalia microphylla, a shrub of southern South America

Further reading

• “piquillín”, 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