guajillo
English
Etymology
Noun
guajillo (plural guajillos)
- A variety of chili, a dried mirasol.
- A huajillo, a shrub of species Senegalia berlandieri (syn. Acacia berlandieri).
See also
Spanish
Etymology
From Classical Nahuatl huāxin + -illo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡwaˈxiʝo/ [ɡwaˈxi.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ɡwaˈxiʎo/ [ɡwaˈxi.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ɡwaˈxiʃo/ [ɡwaˈxi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ɡwaˈxiʒo/ [ɡwaˈxi.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: gua‧ji‧llo
Noun
guajillo m (plural guajillos)
Related terms
Further reading
- “guajillo”, 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