Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The edible spinachlike leaves of the dasheen.
- n. A soup or stew made of these leaves or other greens, okra, crabmeat, and seasonings.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genus Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
- n. A spicy soup or stew made from such leaves.
Etymologies
- From American Spanish calalú. (Wiktionary)
- American Spanish calulú, plant of genus Xanthosoma whose leaves are used as greens, perhaps from Tupi caárurú, thick leaf. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Fish wrapped in banana leaves, dried beans, lots of soups, rice, a native green called callaloo, rum, and a devastating moonshine concocted from fermented corn and sugarcane juice, which Fry gives a recipe for.”
“Among the offerings at Basil's Bar is soup made from a local leaf vegetable called callaloo, as well as a curried conch dish (www. basilsmustique.com; 784 / 488-8350; dinner entrees $30 and up).”
“He acknowledges using mostly American meat on his Cayman menu, but he is in dialogues with local farmers for produce such as callaloo, a leafy vegetable, which he serves with a grilled pork chop for 29 Cayman Islands dollars $35.”
“I've prepared grilled parrot fish, roasted breadfruit dumplings and callaloo," she tells me.”
“They dined on lobster tails and callaloo and sampled several of the Caribbean-style alcoholic beverages.”
“While it may be a challenge to package up delights prepared by local Montego Bay vendors -- think fresh callaloo and deliciously doughy festival, authentic spices and tasty marinades are easy to find.”
The Huffington Post: Chie Davis: Caribbean Holiday Travel-Do's & Don'ts for Female Travelers
“She cannot have rice and peas, curry goat with roti, a little plantains and callaloo to put some meat on her bones?”
“His breakfast in Jamaica includes fruit and a dish consisting of poached eggs with callaloo, a leafy Caribbean green.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hitmaker Finds It's Never Too Late to Make Waves
“Or order the ackee and saltfish, served with festivals (fried bread) and callaloo ($16), or because it's the season, the curry lobster roll ($18).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘callaloo’.
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root tips and other ends
stolon, circinate, calyptrogen, meristem, verticil, fusiform, telomere, skirret, relbun, turpeth, galangal, vetiver and 54 more...
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Exotic Tastes
Interesting words related to food, ingredients, dishes, cookery, cuisines and so on. Exotic in this case is entirely subjective, with funkelberries on top.
tatty, neep, flummery, babaganoush, tahini, samphire, loblolly, scrumpy, fressen, luwak, duxelle, edamame and 213 more...
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Fun Food Names2
sunchoke, coconut egg jam, apple butter, peppercorns, dried cloud ears, ham hocks, kippered cod, rutabaga, salsify, scallion, wild leek, seaweed sheets and 48 more...
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Jamaica
irie, duppy, saltfish, ackee, callaloo, boonoonoonoos, jonga, pissabed, iniquity, quackoo, ruinate, braata and 28 more...
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live thriving words
IE roots of bhel- and a few others
bless, blossom, foil, foliage, folio, folium, cinquefoil, defoliate, exfoliate, feuilleton, perfoliate, milfoil and 67 more...
Tweets
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avivamagnolia ~A soup or stew made with greens, onions, and crabmeat or pork
~The edible young green leaves of taro (dasheen, common to Trinidad and Tobago
~Caribbean Callaloo Stew
~Caribbean English, perhaps ultimately of African origin; akin to Caribbean Spanish: calalú, callaloo (greens and dish), Brazilian Portuguese: carurú, Haitian Creole: kalalou, okra
Jan 19, 2009