cochayuyo

English

Noun

cochayuyo (countable and uncountable, plural cochayuyos)

A type of edible seaweed (Durvillaea antarctica).
Synonym: rimurapa

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]

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

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