culantro

From Spanish culantro, whence also the doublet cilantro, which see for more.

• IPA^(key): /kuːˈlɑːn.tɹoʊ/, /kuːˈlæn.tɹoʊ/

culantro (uncountable)

1. The tropical herb Eryngium foetidum, native to Mexico, Central America and South America but cultivated worldwide, used medicinally and in Caribbean cuisine.

   Synonyms: (Caribbean) chadon beni, (Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) fitweed

   • 2007 January 21, Timothy Williams, “As East Harlem Develops, Its Accent Starts to Change”, in New York Times‎:

     A painting of a woman wearing a burgundy shawl over a flamenco-style dress hangs on a wall, and in the garden, tomatoes, peppers, corn and culantro, an herb used in Caribbean cooking, grow in the summer.

2. Alternative form of cilantro

Not to be confused with cilantro.

• calutron

From Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”), from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron).

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlantɾo/

culantro m (plural culantros)

1. coriander, cilantro
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 17r:

     Clamaron caſado de iſr̃l ſo nõbre magna caera como ſemẏent de culantro blanco. E ſo ſabor como breſcas de myel

     The house of Israel gave it the name manna, because it was like the seed of white coriander, and its taste like that of honeycombs.

• Ladino: kulantro
• Spanish: cilantro
  • English: cilantro

Inherited from Old Spanish culantro, from Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”), from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron).

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlantɾo/ [kuˈlãn̪.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -antɾo
• Syllabification: cu‧lan‧tro

culantro m (plural culantros)

1. (Central America, Mexico) Eryngium foetidum
2. Alternative form of cilantro
3. (euphemistic, colloquial, Costa Rica, Mexico) butt, buttocks

• → Belizean Creole: silanchro
• → Cebuano: kulantro
• → English: culantro
• → Hiligaynon: kulantro

• “culantro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014