ulluco
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Etymology
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Noun
ulluco (plural ullucos)
- Ullucus tuberosus, a vegetable of South America with edible roots and leaves.
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈʝuko/ [uˈʝu.ko] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /uˈʎuko/ [uˈʎu.ko] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /uˈʃuko/ [uˈʃu.ko] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /uˈʒuko/ [uˈʒu.ko] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -uko
- Syllabification: u‧llu‧co
Noun
ulluco m (plural ullucos)
- alternative form of olluco
Further reading
- “ulluco”, 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