bejín
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Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
bejín m (plural bejines)
- any puffball mushroom of the Lycoperdon genus
References[edit]
- 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[edit]
- “bejín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014