capulin
- noun
- /kəˈpuːlɪn/
- US
:
capulín
- In Mexico, you can find streets lined with capulin trees during the cherry harvest.
Examples
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Many people enjoy picking capulins from the trees in their backyard gardens.
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7352 Capulin Crest Drive
Academic text (2009) -
As Figure 3 shows, chasing occurred as far north as Great Bend, Kansas, as far west as Capulin, New Mexico, and as far southwest as Fort Stockton, near the Big Bend region of West Texas.
Academic text (1999) -
The Americans and a Mexican navy official were traveling in a Toyota SUV on a stretch of unpaved road en route to a navy installation at El Capulin Mountain when they encountered a vehicle whose occupants brandished guns, the statement said.
Blog text (4) -
The capulin tree produces small, dark cherries that are popular in local desserts.
Synonyms
A Mexican tree that grows small dark cherries you can eat
A tree from Mexico that makes dark purple, almost black cherries
A Mexican black cherry tree from Central and South America with sweet edible fruit
Compounds
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Capulin comes from Spanish capulín, which itself comes from an old Mexican language called Nahuatl where people used the same name for the fruit. Think of capulin as the local 'cherry' of Mexico, which is why the word means this small dark fruit and the tree that makes it.