bijao

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bijao (countable and uncountable, plural bijaos)

1. Cuban cigar plant (Calathea lutea).
2. macawflower (Heliconia bihai).
3. rat plantain, wild ginger (Renealmia aromatica, syn. Renealmia occidentalis).

• “bijao”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Baoji, jiboa

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• IPA^(key): /biˈxao/ [biˈxa.o]
• Rhymes: -ao
• Syllabification: bi‧ja‧o

bijao m (plural bijaos)

1. Cuban cigar plant (Calathea lutea)

• “bijao”, 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