mulato

Spanish

mulato (plural mulatos)

1. Capsicum annuum, a chili pepper related to the poblano and usually sold dried.

• lam out

Borrowed from Spanish mulato (“mulatto”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mulus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.ˈla.tu/
• Hyphenation: mu‧la‧to

mulato m (plural mulatos, feminine mulata, feminine plural mulatas)

1. mulatto

mulato m (feminine singular mulata, masculine plural mulatos, feminine plural mulatas, comparable)

1. mulatto

mulo (“mule”) +‎ -ato

mulato (plural mulatos)

1. mulatto
2. dark-skinned

• (dark-skinned): moreno

• chile mulato
• garbanzo mulato
• mulatizar
• palo mulato

mulato m (plural mulatos, feminine mulata, feminine plural mulatas)

1. (obsolete) a small or young mule
2. copal tree (Bursera spp.)
3. A kind of bird:
   1. mockingbird (general term)
   2. tropical mockingbird (Mimus gilvus)
   3. great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
   4. Brewer's blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)

• (small mule): muleto
• (copal tree): copal, cuajiote colorado, indio desnudo, jiote, palo mulato, papelillo, torote
• (mockingbird): cenzontle, gato
• (tropical mockingbird): cenzontle, cenzontle austral, cenzontle cenizo, cenzontle de Castilla, cenzontle gris, cenzontle tropical, chico, paraulata llanera, sinsonte tropical
• (great-tailed grackle): acazanate, clarinero, grajo, huertero, itzlaolzanate, izanatl, mulato, pájaro prieto, papate, picho, tordo grande, tordo macho, urraca, zanate
• (Brewer's blackbird): mirlo, mosquero, tordo chico, tordo de ojos amarillos, tordo migratorio, urraca

• mulato azul
• mulato común
• mulato guatemalteco
• mulato pechiblanco, mulato pecho blanco

• “mulato” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 76, 437