malanga coco

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Noun

malanga coco

  1. A type of malanga.
    • 2013, Maricel Presilla, “Cuban American Food”, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 582:
      In the 1960s, newly arrived Cuban farmers, mostly from Las Villas, planted tropical tubers and fruits, such as yuca (cassava), sweet potato, malanga coco, and mamey, near those same fields, changing the landscape and providing the raw materials for a transplanted Cuban cuisine.

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