madroño

English

Alternative forms

• madroña, madrona, madrone, madrono

Etymology

From Mexican (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish madroño.

Noun

madroño (plural madroños or madroño)

1. The strawberry tree, .

Derived terms

• Mexican madroño
• Pacific madroño

Anagrams

• doorman

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Spanish

madroño

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [maˈðɾo.ɲo]

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Basque mart- ‘blackberry; bramble’, as in (deprecated template usage) martotx ‘bramble’, (deprecated template usage) martsuts ~ (deprecated template usage) martuza ‘blackberry’. Basque also gave Aragonese (deprecated template usage) martuel, Catalan (deprecated template usage) maduixa. Similar sense development in Galician (deprecated template usage) amorogo, Portuguese (deprecated template usage) morango ‘strawberry’, both from (deprecated template usage) amora ‘blackberry; bramble’. Replaced now dialectal (deprecated template usage) (a)borto, from Old Spanish (deprecated template usage) alborco, from Latin (deprecated template usage) arbutus.

Noun

madroño m (plural madroños)

1. strawberry tree, .
2. Fruit of the strawberry tree

Derived terms

• madroñal

See also

• madroño on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es