sardão
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Timon-lepidus-entirely.jpg/250px-Timon-lepidus-entirely.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic حَرْذُون (ḥarḏūn).[1][2] Compare Galician xardón.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: sar‧dão
Noun
[edit]sardão m (plural sardões)
- ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus)
- holm oak (Quercus ilex)
- Synonym: azinheira
References
[edit]- ^ As árvores na toponímia portuguesa by João Pinho
- ^ “sardão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024