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kuirimo

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Finnish

Etymology

kuiri (spoon) (dialectal) + -mo. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot for Flora Fennica (1860).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkui̯rimo/, [ˈkui̯rimo̞]
  • Rhymes: -uirimo
  • Syllabification(key): kui‧ri‧mo
  • Hyphenation(key): kui‧ri‧mo

Noun

kuirimo

  1. scurvy-grass, spoonwort (plant of the genusCochlearia, many of which have been used in traditional medicine to cure and prevent scurvy)

Declension

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Derived terms

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