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cocoyam, coco yam|ˈkəʊkəʊjæm|
The West African name for either of two food plants, Colocasia esculenta or Xanthosoma sagittifolia, both of the family Araceæ.
1922J. H. Holland Useful Plants of Nigeria IV. 695 Cash Crops—as ‘Coco Yam’..are commonly planted. 1953G. Durrell Overloaded Ark xii. 207 Her native owner..had been feeding her on a diet of mashed coco yam. 1959Times 9 Nov. (Ghana Suppl.) p. iv/4 Ghana produces an abundance of domestic food crops—of which the most important..are plantains, cocoyams. 1961New Scientist 13 July 78 Bananas and cocoyams from South East Asia. |