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)

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

Further reading

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

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