mamoncillo

English

Mamoncillo leaf and fruits

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mamoncillo.

Noun

mamoncillo (plural mamoncillos)

1. Melicoccus bijugatus, a tree of the Sapindaceae family, native to Central and South America.
2. The small, green, tangy, oval fruit of the mamoncillo tree.

Synonyms

• chenet, guaya, genip, ginep, ginnip, gnep, guinep, quenepa, limoncillo, Spanish lime

Translations

Meliococcus bijugatus

• Bajan: ackee
• Dutch: knippa (nl)
• German: Honigbeere f
• Haitian Creole: kenèp
• Jamaican Creole: guinep
• Korean: 마몬 (mamon), 마몬치요 (mamonchiyo)
• Portuguese: papamundo m
• Spanish: mamoncillo (es) m, limoncillo m (Dominican Republic)
• Swedish: honungsbär (sv) n

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Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /mamonˈθiʝo/ [ma.mõn̟ˈθi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /mamonˈθiʝo/ [ma.mõn̟ˈθi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /mamonˈθiʎo/ [ma.mõn̟ˈθi.ʎo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /mamonˈsiʝo/ [ma.mõnˈsi.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /mamonˈsiʝo/ [ma.mõnˈsi.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains) /mamonˈsiʎo/ [ma.mõnˈsi.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /mamonˈsiʃo/ [ma.mõnˈsi.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /mamonˈsiʒo/ [ma.mõnˈsi.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝo

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝo
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎo
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃo
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒo

• Hyphenation: ma‧mon‧ci‧llo

Noun

mamoncillo m (plural mamoncillos)

1. the mamoncillo

Further reading

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