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单词 malanga
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malangan.

Brit. /məˈlaŋɡə/, U.S. /məˈlæŋɡə/
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish malanga.
Etymology: < American Spanish malanga < Kongo malanga taro (occasionally also applied to other food plants such as this one).In quot. 1853 via Swedish malanga.
Any of several plants of the family Araceae cultivated in the Caribbean and Central and South America for their edible tubers and medicinal value; esp. one of the genus Xanthosoma. Cf. tannia n., yautia n.
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1853 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Homes of New World II. 333 They are not fed here on rice, but principally upon a species of root called malanga, which..seemed to me insipid. It is yellow, and something like the potato, but has a poor and somewhat bitter taste.
1910 Bull. Bureau Plant Industry, U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 164. 11 Malanga is the Arawak name for taro, and is still current in Cuba for both yautias and taros.
1929 Travel Jan. 21/2 Dim lights half reveal humble, dark-skinned folk gathered at their simple meal of malangas, rice and fish.
1948 Amer. Notes & Queries 8 117/2 Malanga, tubercle similar to that of arum (Puerto Rico).
1962 Spectator 31 Aug. 297 We could grow..malangas (tubers with a more interesting flavour than either the potato or the sweet potato).
1973 E. L. Ortiz Compl. Bk. Caribbean Cooking 432 Taro..belongs to the arum family and is known in Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad as coco, eddo and baddo, the leaves being called callaloo. A closely related group, the malangas, cultivated in many of the islands, are found in markets as malanga, dasheen, tanier, tannia, and yautía.
1994 Esquire Aug. 31/3 Latin American cuisine that is full of flavors like boniato, sugarcane, and malanga.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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