mugo

Italian

Etymology

From Northern Italian (compare Venetian mugo, muga, Ticinese Lombard muf), from Raetic *𐌌𐌖𐌊𐌖 (*muku, *mugu).[1]

Noun

mugo m (plural mughi)

  1. mountain pine (Pinus mugo)

References
  1. Helmut Genaust, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen, 3rd edn., s.v. "múgo" (Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1996), 397-8.
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