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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, Paraguay, 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)
- mussel
- Synonym: choro
- Chilean mussel
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