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pico

pico is the ellipsis of pico de gallo.

Meaning of pico de gallo

Noun

pico de gallo (uncountable)

  1. A condiment generally made with diced raw onions, tomatoes, chiles, and cilantro.
    • Chilis and peppers help, in whatever form. Hot sauce helps—shrill, vinegary tonics or sweet, syrupy srirachas. Lots of pico de gallo, with triple the jalapeño.2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Pico

Pico

  1. An island in the Azores.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Pico

Pico

  1. A barangay of La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines.

Origin of pico

Derived from Ibaloi piho (“pick mattock”), which inhabitants used to flatten the hilly land.

Phrases with pico

Questions about pico

What does pico mean?
Pico means an island in the Azores.
What is pico the ellipsis of?
Pico is the ellipsis of pico de gallo.
What part of speech is pico?
Pico is a proper noun.

Words near pico in the dictionary

  1. picnis
  2. picnometer
  3. picnometers
  4. picnometry
  5. picnotic
  6. pico
  7. Pico Bolívar
  8. pico de gallo
  9. pico projector
  10. pico projectors
  11. Pico Rivera

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pico (page history and authors); Pico (page history and authors); pico de gallo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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