culantrillo

Spanish

Etymology

From culantro +‎ -illo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʝo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʎo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʃo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /kulanˈtɾiʒo/ [ku.lãn̪ˈt̪ɾi.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Syllabification: cu‧lan‧tri‧llo

Noun

culantrillo m (plural culantrillos)

Any plant of a number of species:
1. Adiantum amplum, of Mexico and Ecuador
2. Adiantum capillus-veneris (black maidenhair fern)
3. Asplenium ceterach (rustyback)
4. Lemna gibba (fat duckweed)
5. Torilis japonica (upright hedge-parsley)

Further reading

“culantrillo”, 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