madroño

Meaning

1. (masculine) strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. (masculine) fruit of the strawberry tree
3. (masculine) lemon drop mangosteen

Concepts

strawberry tree

arbutus

arbutus fruit

arbutus berry

Arbutus berry

arbute

Synonyms

la fruta

madroño arrastrando

mirto del candleberry

encere el mirto

albocerca

alborce

alborecera

borrachín

alborozos

arbetón

madrollera

madroñera

madroñero

albornio

Hyphenated as

ma‧dro‧ño

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maˈdɾoɲo/

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps from Basque mart- (“blackberry; bramble”), as in martotx (“bramble”), martsuts ~ martuza (“blackberry”). Basque also gave Aragonese martuel, Catalan maduixa (“strawberry”). Similar sense development in Galician amorogo, Portuguese morango (“strawberry”), both from amora (“blackberry; bramble”). Replaced now dialectal (a)borto, from Old Spanish alborco, from Latin arbutus. Compare Portuguese medronho.
Note also Armenian մաթուզ (matʻuz).