saguaro

• sahuaro, suwarrow

From Mexican Spanish, from a Taracahitic Uto-Aztecan language, probably Yaqui, Mayo or Opata.[1]

• IPA^(key): /səˈwɑɹoʊ/, /səˈɡwɑɹoʊ/

saguaro (plural saguaros)

1. Carnegiea gigantea, a large cactus native to the Sonoran Desert and characterized by its "arms".
   • 1858, George Engelmann, Cactaceae of the Boundary, C. giganteus, page 42:

     The Suwarrow or Saguaro of the natives.

   • 1870, William Abraham Bell, New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean During 1867-8:

     The Pitella (pronounced Pitayo) and the Saguaro are the most prized.

• saguaro boot
• saguaro cactus
• saguaro fruit
• saguaro stack

• “saguaro”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “saguaro”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “saguaro”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “saguaro”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Spanish saguaro, from an Uto-Aztecan language.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [səˈɣwa.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [səˈɣwa.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [saˈɣwa.ɾo]

saguaro m (plural saguaros)

1. saguaro

saguaro m (plural saguaros)

1. saguaro (a large species of cactus of the Sonoran Desert)

Of Uto-Aztecan origin, probably from Mayo, Opata, or Yaqui.

• IPA^(key): /saˈɡwaɾo/ [saˈɣ̞wa.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: sa‧gua‧ro

saguaro m (plural saguaros)

1. saguaro (a large species of cactus of the Sonoran Desert)

   Synonym: órgano

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