saltón

Meaning

Adj

1. bulging; jumping out; sticking out
2. jumping
3. (figuratively) prominent; noticeable
4. (Latin-America, figuratively) wary; suspicious

Noun

1. (masculine) grasshopper
2. (masculine) larva of cheese fly (Piophila casei)
3. (Peru, masculine) piraíba (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum)

Concepts

protruding

bulging

grasshopper

jumpy

prominent

protuberant

Synonyms

nieve saltón

Translations

hervorstehend

Heuschrecke

sprunghaft

springend

ασταθής

nerveux

Atlapetes sp.

Hyphenated as

sal‧tón

Pronounced as (IPA)

/salˈton/

Etymology

From salto (“jump”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).