cocuyo

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Spanish[edit]

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

cocuyo

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Taíno kukuyo.

Noun[edit]

cocuyo m (plural cocuyos)

(Cuba, Dominican Republic) a bioluminescent click beetle of the genus Pyrophorus

Usage notes[edit]

Not to be confused with the unrelated beetle genus Cucujus.

Further reading[edit]

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

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