quequisque

English

Etymology

From Spanish quequisque.

Noun

quequisque (uncountable)

1. 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)

1. 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], 2024 December 10