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oca

or ŽÇ·°ìČč

[ oh-kuh ]

noun

  1. a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
  2. a tuber of this plant.


oca

/ ˈəʊ°ìə /

noun

  1. any of various South American herbaceous plants of the genus Oxalis, cultivated for their edible tubers: family Oxalidaceae
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of oca1

1595–1605; < Spanish < Quechua oqa
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of oca1

C20: via Spanish from Quechua okka
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Example Sentences

Each house, or oca, is named for its “owner” and architect—in this case, a man named Kwakway.

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An extra course of Alaskan spot prawn with an overlapping, crimson-edged topping of oca — a naturally tart tuber often used in Latin American cooking that Ibrahim located from a farm in Oregon — proved mystifyingly fantastic.

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Those pieces added a crisp element to the confit, which would be served with brown butter crumbs, dried carrots, oca leaves and gribenes.

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It started with the beginning of life itself in Brazil, and the population that formed in the vast forests and built their communal huts, the ocas.

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They saw here a vegetable of the potato kind called oca.

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