culantro

From Spanish culantro, whence also the doublet cilantro, which see for more. Both words are doublets of coriander.

• IPA^(key): /kuːˈlɑːn.tɹoʊ/, /kuːˈlæn.tɹoʊ/
• enPR: ko͞o-länˈ -trō, -lănˈ -

culantro (uncountable)

1. The tropical herb Eryngium foetidum, native to Mexico, Central America and South America but cultivated worldwide, used medicinally and in Caribbean cuisine. (See Usage notes below for this sense.)

   Synonyms: (Caribbean) chadon beni, (Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) fitweed

   • 2007 January 21, Timothy Williams, “As East Harlem Develops, Its Accent Starts to Change”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A painting of a woman wearing a burgundy shawl over a flamenco-style dress hangs on a wall, and in the garden, tomatoes, peppers, corn and culantro, an herb used in Caribbean cooking, grow in the summer.

2. Alternative form of cilantro (the stems and leaves of Coriandrum sativum)

Culantro, in its primary sense of referring to Eryngium foetidum, is not to be confused with cilantro (Coriandrum sativum), despite being its doublet.

• calutron

From Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”), from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron).

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlantɾo/

culantro m (plural culantros)

1. coriander, cilantro (Coriandrum sativum)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 17r:

     Clamaron caſado de iſr̃l ſo nõbre magna caera como ſemẏent de culantro blanco. E ſo ſabor como breſcas de myel

     The house of Israel gave it the name manna, because it was like the seed of white coriander, and its taste like that of honeycombs.

• Ladino: kulantro
• Spanish: cilantro
  • English: cilantro

Inherited from Old Spanish culantro, from Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”), from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron).

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlantɾo/ [kuˈlãn̪.t̪ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -antɾo
• Syllabification: cu‧lan‧tro

culantro m (plural culantros)

1. (Central America, Mexico) culantro (Eryngium foetidum)
2. alternative form of cilantro (Coriandrum sativum)
3. (euphemistic, colloquial, Costa Rica, Mexico) butt, buttocks

• → Belizean Creole: silanchro
• → Cebuano: kulantro
• → English: culantro
• → Hiligaynon: kulantro

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