Masculine
🪨

caroço

Meaning

  1. (masculine) stone (hard nucleus of drupes)
  2. (broadly, masculine) any hard seed found inside a fruit
  3. (informal, masculine) growth (an abnormal mass, such as a tumour)
  4. (masculine) an undissolved chunk or pellet; for example, a pellet of dry flour in dough, or of dry dirt in mud

Concepts

pit
stone
🪨
lump
kernel
core
pith
knot
🪢
endocarp
nub
nucleus
pip
ganglion
gist
heart
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Synonyms

âmago
31k
amêndoa
29k
cerne
30k
gânglio
núcleo
C1
semente
C1

endocarpo

Translations

noyau
🪨
hueso
🦴
Kern
pit
nocciolo
🪨
Stein
🪨
pinyol

κουκούτσι

cuesco
🪨
osso
🦴
kern
Same
pépin
núcleo
Frequency

27k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaˈɾo.su/
Etymology

Cognate with Galician
Galician
carozo
In summary

From Vulgar Latin *carudium, from Ancient Greek καρύδιον (karúdion), from κάρυον (káruon, “nut”). Cognate with Galician carozo.

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