abelmosco

Borrowed from Spanish abelmosco, from New Latin abelmoschus, from Arabic أَبُو الْمِسْك‎ (ʾabū l-misk, “father of musk”), or حَبّ الْمِسْك‎ (ḥabb al-misk, “grain of musk”).

• IPA^(key): /a.belˈmɔs.ko/, [äbe̞l̺ˈmɔs̪ko]
• Stress: abelmòsco
• Hyphenation: a‧bel‧mo‧sco

abelmosco m (plural abelmoschi)

1. musk mallow (Malva moschata)
2. abelmosk (Abelmoschus moschatus)

From New Latin abelmoschus, from Arabic أَبُو الْمِسْك‎ (ʾabū l-misk, “father of musk”), or حَبّ الْمِسْك‎ (ḥabb al-misk, “grain of musk”).

abelmosco m (plural abelmoscos)

1. abelmosk (Abelmoschus moschatus, an evergreen shrub of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa)

From New Latin abelmoschus, from Arabic أَبُو الْمِسْك‎ (ʾabū l-misk, “father of musk”), or حَبّ الْمِسْك‎ (ḥabb al-misk, “grain of musk”).

• IPA^(key): /abelˈmosko/, [aβelˈmosko]

abelmosco m (plural abelmoscos)

1. (botany) abelmosk (evergreen shrub, Abelmoschus moschatus)

• → Italian: abelmosco

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