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Cocoyam

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    New cocoyam: Xanthosoma, particularly Xanthosoma sagittifolium, or the edible root of that plant; malanga.

    "Ampesi, intensely flavored stews or soups, are eaten with fufu, a firm, starchy dumpling made from plantains or cocoyam."

  2. 2
    tropical starchy tuberous root wordnet
  3. 3
    Old cocoyam: Colocasia esculenta; taro.
  4. 4
    edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants wordnet

Etymology

From coco + yam, because old cocoyam was planted in coconut groves and resembled yams. New cocoyam was so named because it resembled old cocoyam.

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