The story
- Spanish · derived fromchoclo“corncob; corn”
- English todayChoclo virus
The virus was first isolated in 2000 from the spleen of a northern pygmy rice rat captured in Las Tablas, Los Santos, and was named after the El Choclo cantina near the city, its name being from Spanish choclo (“corncob; corn”).
Words from the same roots
Spanishchoclo all →
chico
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.