bejín

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Spanish

Alternative forms

bexino, bexin (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *vissīnum, derived from Latin vissīre (“to pass wind”). Cf. the other name for this mushroom, pedo de lobo (“lit. ‘wolf's flatulence’”).

Noun

bejín m (plural bejines)

any puffball mushroom of the Lycoperdon genus

References

Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “bejín”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 555

Further reading

“bejín”, 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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