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🥒 A green vegetable 🌿 A climbing plant 🥗 Edible shoots
chayote

chayote

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A green pear-shaped vegetable with a mild taste and crisp texture
  • noun
  • /ˈʧeɪoʊti/
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  • The recipe calls for one medium chayote, which should be peeled and diced before cooking.
  • Peel the chayote
  • chayote squash

Examples

  • So, on October 12 this year and forever more, eat chayote with crisp cassava bread, the only real recipe handed down to us from the Caribs.

    Academic text (1990)

  • While I ate it on a rainy night in Dominica, I saw that christophine, chayote, mirliton, or vegetable pear was the answer to a worldwide problem: the lack of an official food for gastronomy's most important holiday.

    Academic text (1990)

  • You can sauté sliced chayote with garlic and olive oil for a delicious side dish.

  • A fresh salad with diced chayote, tomatoes, and cilantro makes a light and tasty meal.

Surface Forms

chayote singular
chayotes plural

Etymology

Chayote comes from the Nahuatl word chayohtli, a name people in Mexico used for a 'squash-like plant' and its fruit. So the word still refers to the green, pear-shaped vegetable we eat today.