ocotillo
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See also: Ocotillo
English
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Etymology
[edit]From American Spanish ocotillo, from ocote.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ocotillo (plural ocotillos)
- Any of various succulent plants, not closely related to the cactus, in genus Fouquieria, especially Fouquieria splendens, living in Central America or the southwest United States.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 731:
- It had rained in the night, and some of the ocotillo fences had sprouted some green.
Synonyms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /okoˈtiʝo/ [o.koˈt̪i.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /okoˈtiʎo/ [o.koˈt̪i.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /okoˈtiʃo/ [o.koˈt̪i.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /okoˈtiʒo/ [o.koˈt̪i.ʒo]
- Syllabification: o‧co‧ti‧llo
Noun
[edit]ocotillo m (plural ocotillos)
Further reading
[edit]- “ocotillo”, 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
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