yautia
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- noun
- /jaʊˈtiə/
- US
- Some forty species of Xanthosoma go by the vernacular names of tania, tannier, malanga amarilla, yautia, and cocoyam.
Examples
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The Manhattan supermarket I use sells Colocasia as malanga and markets Xanthosoma as yautia.
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I imagine her showing me her cancer-eaten belly, holding up the tumors the way she used to show me the yautia she pulled out of the ground.
Fiction book (1991) -
The yautia I see at the market are gnarled and hairier than the malangas.
Synonyms
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A tropical plant with starchy roots that people cook and eat like potatoes
A tropical plant with large edible roots cooked like yams or potatoes
A tropical American plant with large edible tubers cooked like yams
A tropical plant with edible tubers cooked like yams or potatoes
A tropical plant with thick roots you eat cooked like potatoes
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word yautia comes from a Caribbean indigenous word that Spanish kept as yautía. It always named a starchy root used like a 'yam' or 'potato', so today yautia means a tropical tuber you cook and eat.