almendrón

From almendro (“almond tree”) +‎ -ón (augmentative suffix).

• IPA^(key): /almenˈdɾon/ [al.mẽn̪ˈd̪ɾõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: al‧men‧drón

almendrón m (plural almendrones)

1. tropical almond tree
2. (Cuba) an American car made before the 1960s

• “almendrón”, 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
• “almendrón”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010