tejocote
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl texocotl (literally “stone fruit”), from tetl (“stone”) + xocotl (“plum, fruit”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tejocote m (plural tejocotes)
- (Mexico) Crataegus mexicana, a species of fruit-bearing hawthorn
- (Mexico) the small, yellowish fruit of this tree
Further reading
[edit]- “tejocote”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ote
- Rhymes:Spanish/ote/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Mexican Spanish
- es:Fruits
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