quequisque

English

Etymology

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014