tejocote
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl texocotl (literally “stone fruit”), from tetl (“stone”) + xocotl (“plum, fruit”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tejocote m (plural tejocotes)
- (Mexico) Crataegus mexicana, a species of fruit-bearing hawthorn
- (Mexico) the small, yellowish fruit of this tree
Further reading edit
- “tejocote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014