bejín

Spanish

Alternative forms

• bexino, bexin (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited 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

bejín m (plural bejines)

1. any puffball mushroom of the Lycoperdon genus

References

• 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

• “bejín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014