Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given by the natives of western South America to several kinds of plants with tuberous roots, and especially to a species of the umbelliferous genus Arracacia, A. esculenta, which is extensively cultivated in the Andes, and has become naturalized in Jamaica.
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- noun A South American plant grown as a root vegetable, Arracacia xanthorrhiza
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yucca, arracacha, potato and platano all together, repeated and with rice added to the main dish and desert.
Around the Colombian family’s kitchen table « Unknowing 2010
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In the fields he found unfamiliar foods: tree tomatoes, taro, and arracacha roots, new varieties of beans and maize.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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In the fields he found unfamiliar foods: tree tomatoes, taro, and arracacha roots, new varieties of beans and maize.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Sweet manioc was grown, as well as native root crops such as arracacha and xanthosoma.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Root crops include: achira (Canna edulis), containing a starch with unusually large grains; ahipa (Pachyrhizus ahipa), a legume whose sweet roots remain crunchy even after cooking; arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza, pictured), carrot-like roots that can be boiled as a table vegetable; maca
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Sweet manioc was grown, as well as native root crops such as arracacha and xanthosoma.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Chica, an alcoholic beverage made from maize in Peru since pre-Hispanic times, also is produced from potato, oca (Oxalis tuberosa), arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza), maca (Lepidium evenii), and other Incan crops that science has almost totally neglected.
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A strain of arracacha virus B has been found to infect the plant, though no vector has been identified, and mycoplasma-like bodies have been found in seriously diseased material.
Chapter 24 1987
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Reduction of losses during the marketing of arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza).
Chapter 8 1987
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Rainfall-arracacha requires a moderate, evenly-distributed rainfall of at least 60 cm but preferably 100 cm, and if the natural rainfall is insufficient it should be supplemented by irrigation.
Chapter 8 1987
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