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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A perennial plant (Oxalis tuberosa) of the high Andes, grown for its edible tubers.
  • noun The tubers of this plant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of two plants of the genus Oxalis, O. crenata and O. tuberosa, found in western South America.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (Oxalis crenata, and Oxalis tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, possibly from Quechua oqa.]

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  • Better known as New Zealand yam in Australia although now grown here.

    June 3, 2012