carrizo

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *cariceus, from Latin cārex. Cognate with Portuguese carriço, Spanish carrizo.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈriθo̝/, (western) /kaˈriso̝/

carrizo m (plural carrizos)

1. common reed (Phragmites australis)
2. Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
3. European hornet (Vespa crabro)
4. wild hop (Humulus lupulus)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carriço”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carrizo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carrizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carrizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cariceus, from Latin carex.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaˈriθo/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kaˈriso/
• Rhymes: -iθo
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: ca‧rri‧zo

carrizo m (plural carrizos)

1. reed

   Synonyms: caña, junco

2. any of various plants found in reed beds
   1. Ammophila arenaria
   2. Arundo donax
   3. Elytrigia repens
   4. Phragmites australis
3. (Colombia, Venezuela, Panama) drinking straw
4. (euphemistic) penis

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