caroço

From Vulgar Latin *carudium, from Ancient Greek καρύδιον (karúdion), from κάρυον (káruon, “nut”). Cognate with Galician carozo.

caroço m (plural caroços, metaphonic)

1. stone (hard nucleus of drupes)
2. (by extension) any hard seed found inside a fruit
   • 2014, Camila Kintzel, Quebrada em grande estilo: Confissões de uma ex-arrogante e compulsiva por compras, Gutemberg, translation of Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster, published 2006, →ISBN, page 274:

     — O mercado da esquina era nojento. Tinha gente de pé do lado de fora comendo manga e jogando os caroços no chão.

     — The corner market was disgusting. There were people standing outside eating mangoes and throwing the stones on the ground.

3. (informal) growth (an abnormal mass, such as a tumour)
4. an undissolved chunk or pellet; for example, a pellet of dry flour in dough, or of dry dirt in mud

• → Swahili: korosho