释义 |
oca /ˈəʊkə /nounA South American plant related to wood sorrel, long cultivated in Peru for its edible tubers.- Oxalis tuberosa, family Oxalidaceae.
The potato was also of great importance and, with its related tubers oca and ulluco, provided crops which were protected from the frost, hail, and storms....- Cultivated oca has an important place in the diets and farming systems of rural communities in the Andean highlands.
- Several families were harvesting bright yellow oca (a sweet potato).
OriginEarly 17th century: from American Spanish, from Quechua ócca. |