Dictionary Definition

criollo

1 a Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish); "Mexico is a country of mestizos, criollos, and indigenes"

2 cocoa of superior quality

User Contributed Dictionary

Criollo may refer to:

Criollo (people), a caste in the Spanish colonial caste system
Criollo (horse), a South American horse breed
Criollo (cow), imported bovine by Spaniards and Portuguese into Latin America.
Criollo (band), a Bahire band
Criollo (sausage), a local sausage, e.g., in Asturias
Criollo tobacco, a variety of tobacco used for cigar wrappers which originated in Cuba
Criollo cocoa, a variety of highly prized cocoa
Cuban Criollo (horse), a Cuban horse breed
Creole peoples
Creole language
Corriente cattle or Criollo cattle
Caguas Creoles (basketball) or Criollos de Caguas
Mission (grape) or
Criollo Group, a cultivar of cacao
Agustin Criollo, a multi instrumentalist artist born in San Juan de Puerto Rico in 1969