dorado

From Spanish dorado, from the verb dorar (“gild, give a golden color”).

• IPA^(key): /dəˈrɑːdəʊ/

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dorado (plural dorados or doradoes)

1. Coryphaena hippurus, the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.

• dolphin, dolphinfish, mahi-mahi

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• Hyphenation: do‧ra‧do

dorado

1. any of several fishes
   1. the mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus)
   2. the greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili)
   3. the blackbanded trevally (Seriolina nigrofasciata)
   4. any of the four recognized species of the genus Scomberoides
      1. the needle-scaled queenfish (Scomberoides tol)
      2. the barred queenfish (Scomberoides tala)
      3. the doublespotted queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
      4. the talang queenfish (Scomberoides commersonnianus)

dorado

1. plated; covered with plating, especially gold

From Spanish dorado.

dorádo

1. gold, golden

dorádo

1. gilt
2. gold

From the verb dorar (“gild, give a golden color”).

• IPA^(key): /doˈɾado/ [d̪oˈɾa.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: do‧ra‧do

dorado (feminine dorada, masculine plural dorados, feminine plural doradas)

1. golden

dorado m (plural dorados)

1. various species of golden-colored fish (though not usually the pet goldfish)
2. plating with gold

• → English: dorado

dorado (feminine dorada, masculine plural dorados, feminine plural doradas)

1. past participle of dorar

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