zuro
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Catalan suro (“cork”) or Aragonese zuro (“cork”), from Latin sūber.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθuɾo/ [ˈθu.ɾo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsuɾo/ [ˈsu.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -uɾo
- Syllabification: zu‧ro
Noun
zuro m (plural zuros)
- (Spain) corncob
- Synonyms: (Mexico and Central America) olote, (North-Western Argentine, Bolivia and Chile) coronta, (Argentine, Paraguay and Uruguay) marlo, (Cuba, Puerto Rico and Venezuela) tusa
Further reading
- “zuro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014