mejillón

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese mexilhão or from Galician mexillón.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mexiˈʝon/ [me.xiˈʝõn]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /mexiˈʝon/ [me.xiˈʝõn]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /mexiˈʎon/ [me.xiˈʎõn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /mexiˈʃon/ [me.xiˈʃõn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /mexiˈʒon/ [me.xiˈʒõn]

• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: me‧ji‧llón

Noun

mejillón m (plural mejillones)

1. mussel

   Synonym: choro

2. Chilean mussel

Further reading

• “mejillón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10