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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chenopodiaceous plant of the Andes, Ullucus tuberosus, yielding edible tubers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A climbing plant (
Ullucus officinalis ) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of theAndes , havingtuberous roots which are used as asubstitute forpotatoes .
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