kumara

plural kumaras

1. New ZealandThe sweet potato.First known use 18th c.

   “And once, a woman threw a piece of cooked kumara at me and I ducked, and laughed…”

   1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 368

   2 more examples

   They introduced the gourd, taro and kumara from the Polynesian Islands to the New Zealanders.

   1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 98

   In contrast to everything else that these migrant people had lugged from island to island, the kūmara had not come from the west.

   2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 21

1. A small town on the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand.