malanga

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malanga (plural malangas)

1. Any of several Central and South American plants, of the genus Xanthosoma; yautia.
2. Taro (Colocasia esculenta)
3. The edible tuber of these plants, some of which have medicinal value.
4. Chinese taro (Alocasia cucullata, syn. Caladium colocasia).

• cocoyam, new cocoyam.

• “malanga”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Malagan, Maṅgala, Málagan, Nagmaal, malagan

• IPA^(key): /maˈlan.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -anɡa
• Hyphenation: ma‧làn‧ga

malanga f (plural malanghe)

1. malanga
   • (Can we date this quote?), Gabriel García Márquez, Cent’anni di solitudine, translated from Spanish to Italian by Enrico Cicogna →ISBN, page 12:

     ... mentre Ursula e i bambini si rompevano la schiena nell’orto per coltivare il banano e la malanga, la manica e l’igname, la ahuyama e la melanzana.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• La Magna, Lamagna

malanga f (plural malangas)

1. any of several arum family plants grown for their edible tubers: taro, malanga, eddo

• IPA^(key): /maˈlanɡa/ [maˈlãŋ.ɡa]
• Rhymes: -anɡa
• Syllabification: ma‧lan‧ga

malanga f (plural malangas)

1. malanga

• “malanga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024