chufan.
/ˈtʃuːfə/ U.S.
The Earth Almond ( Cyperus esculentus) a plant producing small tubers about the size of a bean. (In French souchet comestible or amande de terre.)
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1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Earth Almond, a perennial, indigenous to southern Europe, growing in the form of a rush some three feet high, producing small tubers the size of a common bean, and called by the Valencians ‘Chufas’.
1879 Louisville (Kentucky) Home & Farm 15 Apr. My hogs had no corn. They had abundance of chufas with the run of potato pinder and pea fields.
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