acerola

From Spanish acerola. Doublet of azarole.

• IPA^(key): /æ.səˈɹəʊ.lə/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə

acerola (plural acerolas)

1. A tree of the West Indies and northern South America, Malpighia glabra.
2. The fruit of this tree.

Borrowed from Spanish acerola. First attested in 1869.[1]

• IPA^(key): /a.t͡sɛˈrɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧ro‧la

acerola f

1. acerola, Malpighia glabra

   Synonyms: nadgwiazdka granatolistna, wiśnia z Barbados

   owoc aceroli ― fruit of the acerola

2. acerola (the fruit of this tree)

   Synonyms: nadgwiazdka granatolistna, wiśnia z Barbados

• Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎, Wydawnictwo PWN

• acerola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• acerola in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

acerola f (plural acerolas)

1. acerola

From Andalusian Arabic الزَعْرُورَة‎ (az-zaʕrúra), from Classical Arabic زُعْرُورَة‎ (zuʕrūra).[1]

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aθeˈɾola/ [a.θeˈɾo.la]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aseˈɾola/ [a.seˈɾo.la]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧ro‧la

acerola f (plural acerolas)

1. azarole, the fruit of the acerolo, Crataegus azarolus
2. acerola

• Acerola originated as a word for the azerole (Crataegus azarolus), but was applied to Malpighia emarginata after Europeans found it in the New World. Since the azerole is little known outside of Europe, usage in the Americas seems to almost entirely indicate Malpighia rather than Crataegus.

• “acerola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014