camalote

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl camalotl.

Noun

camalote m (plural camalotes)

1. Pontederia crassipes, a tropical aquatic plant from South America, in the family Pontederiaceae, that appears to form floating islands

Further reading

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