madumbin.
/məˈdʊmbi/, U.S. /məˈdʊmbi/, South African English /məˈdʊmbi/ South African.
The edible starchy tuber of the taro, Colocasia esculenta, or its variety antiquorum; the plant itself, which in South Africa is cultivated mainly in KwaZulu-Natal.
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1951 Official Yearbk. of Union 1949 (Union Office of Census & Statistics) 473 Of the root crops, madumbies are generally grown on the North coast of Natal.
1953 R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice 148 He fished a hot madumbi, or native potato, out of the pot.
1990 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 26 May (Leisure section) 7 I had some difficulty in finding out what exactly madombes were, except..that they were a highly nutritious form of food.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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