malojillo
English
Noun
malojillo (uncountable)
- Synonym of para grass (“Urochloa mutica”).
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maloˈxiʝo/ [ma.loˈxi.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /maloˈxiʎo/ [ma.loˈxi.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /maloˈxiʃo/ [ma.loˈxi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /maloˈxiʒo/ [ma.loˈxi.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: ma‧lo‧ji‧llo
Noun
malojillo m (plural malojillos)
- (Venezuela) lemongrass
- Synonyms: té de limón, limonaria, caña de limón, zacate de limón, hierbaluisa, lemongrass
Further reading
- “malojillo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010