melloco

Spanish

Noun

melloco m (plural mellocos)

1. (Ecuador) ulluco, Ullucus tuberosus

   Synonyms: olluco, ulluco, ruba, papa lisa, lisa

   • 2017 July, “Madrugadas de intenso ajetreo marcan la vida en Montebello”, in El Universo‎^[1]:

     Ahí pela habas, ajos, limpia tubérculos, pone en fundas los mellocos y otros.

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Further reading

• “melloco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Ullucus tuberosus on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es