chanchito

English

Noun

chanchito (plural chanchitos)

Australoheros facetus, the chameleon cichlid.

Spanish

Etymology

From chancho +‎ -ito.

Noun

chanchito m (plural chanchitos)

(Latin America) piglet
(Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay) piggy bank
Synonyms: (Spain) hucha, (Latin America, Philippines, Canary Islands, Andalusia) alcancía, (Mexico, Venezuela) cochinito, (Guatemala) cochito, (Colombia) marranito, (Mexico) puerquito, (El Salvador) tunquito

Derived terms

chanchito de tierra

Further reading

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

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