Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A twining perennial plant (Ullucus tuberosus) native to the Andes, bearing edible tubers.
- noun The tuber of this plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
melluc�o .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Ullucus tuberosus, a
vegetable ofSouth America with edibleroots andleaves .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Method - usually planted at the beginning of the rainy season and generally interplanted or rotated with other tuber crops (eg ulluco or potato), cereals or legumes.
Chapter 24 1987
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Four kinds of tuberous plants are successfully cultivated in the Sierra; viz., the potatoe, the ulluco, the oca, and the mashua.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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He now owns vast farming lands, where he grows and harvests potatoes, peas, corn, beans and ulluco (a root vegetable), products that he later sells at the wholesale market in the town of
Kiva Loans 2010
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"cassava of the highlands" that turns sweet after lying in the sun; oca (Oxalis tuberosa), a very hardy staple; little known potatoes (Solanum sp.) that have potential as germplasm; ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus), a brightly colored source of carbohydrates; and yacn (Polymnia sonchifolia), a sweet, yet almost calorie-free tuber.
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