mejillón

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese mexilhão or from Galician mexillón.[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /mexiˈʝon/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /mexiˈʎon/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /mexiˈʃon/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /mexiˈʒon/

  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: me‧ji‧llón

Noun

mejillón m (plural mejillones)

  1. mussel
    Synonym: choro
  2. Chilean mussel

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “mejillón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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