culantro
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish culantro, whence also the doublet cilantro, which see for more.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culantro (uncountable)
- The tropical herb Eryngium foetidum, native to Mexico, Central America and South America but cultivated worldwide, used medicinally and in Caribbean cuisine.
- Synonyms: (Caribbean) chadon beni, (Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) fitweed
- 2007 January 21, Timothy Williams, “As East Harlem Develops, Its Accent Starts to Change”, in New York Times[1]:
- A painting of a woman wearing a burgundy shawl over a flamenco-style dress hangs on a wall, and in the garden, tomatoes, peppers, corn and culantro, an herb used in Caribbean cooking, grow in the summer.
- Alternative form of cilantro
Usage notes edit
Not to be confused with cilantro.
Translations edit
Eryngium foetidum
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Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”), from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culantro m (plural culantros)
- coriander, cilantro
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 17r:
- Clamaron caſado de iſr̃l ſo nõbre magna caera como ſemẏent de culantro blanco. E ſo ſabor como breſcas de myel
- The house of Israel gave it the name manna, because it was like the seed of white coriander, and its taste like that of honeycombs.
Descendants edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish culantro, from Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”), from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culantro m (plural culantros)
- (Central America, Mexico) Eryngium foetidum
- Alternative form of cilantro
- (euphemistic, colloquial, Costa Rica, Mexico) butt, buttocks
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Further reading edit
- “culantro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014