monacillo

monacillo: /mon'euh see"oh/; Sp. /maw'nah see"yaw/, n., pl. monacillos /-see"ohz/; Sp. /-see"yaws/.

a low shrub, Malvaviscus arboreus, of tropical America, having scarlet flowers and berrylike fruit that is sticky when young.

[ < AmerSp, Sp: lit., altar-boy, earlier monazillo, monaziello < VL *monachellus, equiv. to LL monach(us) MONK + -ellus dim. suffix; see -ELLE]

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