ariá

noun

Guinea arrowroot: the plant Goeppertia allouia, grown for its edible tubers.

OriginBrazilian Portuguese ariá →
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Meanings

noun
  1. uncommonGuinea arrowroot: the plant Goeppertia allouia, grown for its edible tubers.

    The ariá (Goeppertia allouia (Aubl.) Borchs. & S. Suárez) is a tuberous species native to the Amazon and traditionally farmed by indigenous and riverside populations in Tropical America.

    2021, Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Local Food Plants of Brazil, page 282
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    The ariá (Calathea allouia (Aubl.) Lindl. Marantaceae) (Figure 9.2), is presumed to have spread from Puerto Rico and the Antilles to northern South America (Guyanas, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil) […]

    2000, Wolfgang J. Junk, Central Amazon Floodplain, page 174

Origin

  1. Brazilian Portugueseariá
  2. Englishariá

Brazilian Portuguese ariá.

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