tejocote

Spanish

tejocotes [2]

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl texocotl (literally “stone fruit”), from tetl (“stone”) + xocotl (“plum, fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /texoˈkote/ [t̪e.xoˈko.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: te‧jo‧co‧te

Noun

tejocote m (plural tejocotes)

1. (Mexico) Crataegus mexicana, a species of fruit-bearing hawthorn
2. (Mexico) the small, yellowish fruit of this tree

Further reading

• “tejocote”, 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