cocuyo
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cocuyo m (plural cocuyos)
- (Cuba, Dominican Republic) a bioluminescent click beetle of the genus Pyrophorus
Usage notes edit
- Not to be confused with the unrelated beetle genus Cucujus.
Further reading edit
- “cocuyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014