grelo

Uncertain. Perhaps from Latin gryllus (“cricket, grasshopper”),[1] but compare grilo.

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾelo̝/
• (eastern) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾilo̝/

grelo m (plural grelos)

1. shoot, sprout.
2. (cooking, in the plural) pre-flowering Brassica rapa (turnip) greens, usually consumed in caldo or as a side dish.
   • 1976, Maruxa Barrio Val, Textos pra o ensino do galego. A Coruña: Ed. do Rueiro. →ISBN:

     A trinidade do galego: nabo, nabiza e grelo

     The trinity of the Galicians: turnip, turnip greens and grelos

   Synonym: cimo

• grelar

• “grelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “grelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “grelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• grelo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

Borrowed from French grêle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡre.lo/

grelo (plural greli)

1. (weather) hail, hail storm

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

• Hyphenation: gre‧lo

grelo m (plural grelos)

1. sprout (new growth on a plant)
2. (cooking, in the plural) turnip greens
3. (vulgar, slang) clitoris, clit or clitty

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾelo/ [ˈɡɾe.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: gre‧lo

grelo m (plural grelos)

1. turnip greens

• nabo

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