Ube

//ˈuːbeɪ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The purple yam, Dioscorea alata. uncountable

    "Ube is a popular ingredient in cakes and ice-cream in the Philippines and Jamaica."

  2. 2
    Initialism of unsolicited bulk email. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

Synonyms

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purple yampurple yamrasavalli

Example

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"Purple, violet, or lavender has been really my favourite colour since being a toddler in jungle-surrounded Ferry, Batangas, Philippines, in the 1960s, as my aunties wore lipstick and nails in that colour, and we ate "ube," a purple yam, which had that colour. Now, I associate it with the language Lojban, because of its creative energy."

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog ube.

Related phrases

purple yam

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