acocil

Borrowed from Spanish acocil, from a Nahuan language (cf. Classical Nahuatl ācōcīlin).

acocil (plural acociles)

1. A kind of crayfish (Cambarellus montezumae).

• calcio-, calico

Borrowed from a Nahuan language (cf. Classical Nahuatl ācōcīlin).

• IPA^(key): /akoˈθil/ [a.koˈθil] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /akoˈsil/ [a.koˈsil] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: a‧co‧cil

acocil m (plural acociles)

1. (Mexico) acocil (Cambarellus montezumae)

   Synonyms: chacal, chacalín, langosta del río, langostín, cangrejo de río, (Bolivia) seboro

• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988), A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎^[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 255

• “acocil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025