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  • noun Plural form of cocoyam.

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Examples

  • Agriculture is usually a form of shifting cultivation, mostly the yams-maize-cocoyams-cassava farm system, interspersed with oil palm, cacao, and rubber plantations.

    Nigerian lowland forests 2007

  • Root-rot of cocoyams (Xanthosoma sagittifolium Schott).

    Chapter 31 1987

  • Observations on the dehydration characteristics of different varieties of yam and cocoyams.

    Chapter 37 1987

  • The classical example of this is the treatment, before eating, of yams (Dioscorea spp.) and keladis, taros, cocoyams (aroid yams of the genera Colocasia, Xanthosoma, Amorphophallus), tapioca, cassava (Manihot esculenta Cranz), and the so-called cabbages of palms.

    Chapter 19 1979

  • The woman is thus involved in cultivating and storing cocoyams and cassava or even in charge of this.

    2 Socio-cultural aspects involved in the production of roots and tubers 1978

  • Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobusJ as a fallow crop in cocoyams.

    Chapter 8 1981

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