epazote

From Spanish epazote, from Classical Nahuatl epazōtl.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛpəˈzoʊteɪ/

epazote (plural epazotes)

1. A pungent herb used in Latin-American cooking and tea making, and in folk medicine; Dysphania ambrosioides.

• (Dysphania ambrosoides): wormseed, Jesuit's tea, Mexican tea, payqu (paico), herba sancti Mariae, Jerusalem oak, drug wormseed

• “epazote”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• epasote

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl epazōtl.

• IPA^(key): /epaˈθote/ [e.paˈθo.t̪e] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /epaˈsote/ [e.paˈso.t̪e] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: e‧pa‧zo‧te
• Homophone: (Latin America) epasote

epazote m (countable and uncountable, plural epazotes)

1. epazote

   Synonym: (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) paico

• → English: epazote
• → French: épazote

• “epazote”, 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