saguaro

• sahuaro, suwarro, suwarrow

From Mexican Spanish saguaro, from a Taracahitic Uto-Aztecan language, probably Yaqui, Mayo or Opata.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /səˈ(ɡ)wɑɹoʊ/, /səˈ(ɡ)wɑɹə/

saguaro (plural saguaros)

1. Carnegiea gigantea, a large cactus native to the Sonoran Desert and characterized by its "arms".
   • 1858, George Engelmann, Cactaceae of the Boundary, C. giganteus, page 42:

     The Suwarrow or Saguaro of the natives.

   • 1870, William Abraham Bell, New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean During 1867-8:

     The Pitella (pronounced Pitayo) and the Saguaro are the most prized.

• saguaro boot
• saguaro cactus
• saguaro fruit
• saguaro stack

• “saguaro”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “saguaro”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “saguaro”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “saguaro”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Spanish saguaro, from an Uto-Aztecan language.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [səˈɣwa.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [səˈɣwa.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [saˈɣwa.ɾo]

saguaro m (plural saguaros)

1. saguaro

Ultimately from a Uto-Aztecan language.

• Rhymes: -aɾu
• Hyphenation: sa‧gua‧ro

saguaro m (plural saguaros)

1. saguaro (a large species of cactus of the Sonoran Desert)

Of Uto-Aztecan origin, probably from Mayo, Opata, or Yaqui.

• IPA^(key): /saˈɡwaɾo/ [saˈɣ̞wa.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: sa‧gua‧ro

saguaro m (plural saguaros)

1. saguaro (a large species of cactus of the Sonoran Desert)

   Synonym: órgano

• “saguaro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024