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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leguminous plant, Pachyrrhizus tuberosus and P. angulatus, widely cultivated in the tropics for its pods, which are used as a vegetable, and for its tubers, which are edible cooked when young, and furnish in large quantity a starch said to be fully equal to arrowroot.
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