jicama

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We added jicama, which is a root vegetable with crunchy, white flesh similar to a giant water chestnut and a mildly sweet, nutty flavor.

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  1. noun A crisp, sweet turnip-shaped root vegetable (Pachyrhizus erosus) used raw in salads and as crudités or cooked in stews. Also called Mexican turnip, yam bean.

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  • We added jicama, which is a root vegetable with crunchy, white flesh similar to a giant water chestnut and a mildly sweet, nutty flavor. —  Odessa America Online : Top Story
  • They're made with avocado, cilantro, jicama, and nori. —  Disease Proof
  • Together they're made with fresh julienned vegetables, jicama, teriyaki sauce, seasonal leaf wrap, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, and tomato sauce. —  Disease Proof
  • As a send off to more reading adventures, the reader is left with four photographs of additional tubers: cassava, jicama, sweet potato, and water chestnut. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Grilled prime tenderloin of beef coated in crisp green tea pearls, sauteed aromatic Asian spice marinated sea bass in a sherry wine yuzu pepper sauce, w / Grilled king oyster mushroom, jicama, romanesco, and potato onion croquette.
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  1. American Spanish jícama, from Nahuatl xīcamatl.

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  1. Nahuatl xicama, or xicamatl.
 

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/ˈhikɑmɑ/
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