ocotillo

From American Spanish ocotillo, from ocote.

• IPA^(key): /əʊkəˈtɪləʊ/, /əʊkəˈtiː(j)əʊ/

ocotillo (plural ocotillos)

1. Any of various succulent plants unrelated to the cactus, in the genus Fouquieria, especially Fouquieria splendens, living in Central America or the southwest United States.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 731:

     It had rained in the night, and some of the ocotillo fences had sprouted some green.

• boojum tree, coachwhip, Jacob's staff, vine cactus

From ocote + -illo.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /okoˈtiʎo/, [okoˈt̪iʎo]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /okoˈtiɟ͡ʝo/, [okoˈt̪iʝo]

ocotillo m (plural ocotillos)

1. (Mexico) ocotillo