bejín
Spanish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Vulgar Latin *vissīnum, derived from Latin vissīre (“to pass wind”). Cf. the other name for this mushroom, pedo de lobo (“lit. ‘wolf's flatulence’”).
Noun
editbejín m (plural bejines)
- any puffball mushroom of the Lycoperdon genus
References
edit- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “bejín”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 555
Further reading
edit- “bejín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014