cochayuyo
English
Noun
cochayuyo (countable and uncountable, plural cochayuyos)
- A type of edible seaweed (Durvillaea antarctica)
Spanish
Etymology
From Quechua kocha (“lagoon”) + yuyu (“vegetable”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kot͡ʃaˈʝuʝo/ [ko.t͡ʃaˈʝu.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kot͡ʃaˈʃuʃo/ [ko.t͡ʃaˈʃu.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kot͡ʃaˈʒuʒo/ [ko.t͡ʃaˈʒu.ʒo]
Audio (Peru) (file) - Rhymes: -uʝo
- Syllabification: co‧cha‧yu‧yo
Noun
cochayuyo m (plural cochayuyos)
- (Latin America) cochayuyo
- Synonyms: cachiyuyo, cochaguasca, coyofe
Further reading
- “cochayuyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
cochayuyo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es