saguaroとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• sahuaro, suwarrow

語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /səˈwɑɹoʊ/, /səˈɡwɑɹoʊ/

名詞

saguaro (複数形 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.

派生語

• saguaro boot
• saguaro cactus
• saguaro stack

参照

• “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 and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “saguaro”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.