quequisque
English
Etymology
From Spanish quequisque.
Noun
quequisque (uncountable)
- new cocoyam
- 1996, Liston Pope, Living Like the Saints: A Novel of Nicaragua, page 188:
- Mongrels all ribcage and droopy jowl barked at his passage; but no one stirred inside the low huts among plots of quequisque and plantain.
Spanish
Noun
quequisque m (plural quequisques)
- any plant of the Xanthosoma family
Further reading
- “quequisque”, 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