culantro

From Spanish culantro, whence also cilantro, which see for more.

• IPA^(key): /kuːˈlɑːn.tɹoʊ/, /kuːˈlæn.tɹoʊ/

culantro (uncountable)

1. The tropical herb Eryngium foetidum, native to Mexico, Central America and South America but cultivated worldwide, used medicinally and in Caribbean cuisine.
   • 2007 January 21, Timothy Williams, “As East Harlem Develops, Its Accent Starts to Change”, in New York Times‎:

     A painting of a woman wearing a burgundy shawl over a flamenco-style dress hangs on a wall, and in the garden, tomatoes, peppers, corn and culantro, an herb used in Caribbean cooking, grow in the summer.

2. Alternative form of cilantro

Not to be confused with cilantro.

• calutron

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlantɾo/, [kuˈlãn̪t̪ɾo]

culantro m (plural culantros)

1. Alternative form of cilantro

• “culantro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.