sincamas

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Archaic; Uncountable

"The crop of sugar cane is sufficiently good, while that of sincamas, squash, melons, sitao, and oranges is fair."
"The edible root of the sincamas has approximately the same shape as does the turnip."
"Also, the fleshy root of sincamas which were on sale in market stalls in Bícol were small and fibrous."

From Philippine Spanish síncamas, from Early Modern Spanish jícamas, plural of jícama (“jicama”), from Classical Nahuatl xīcama, apocopic form of xīcamatl.

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What does sincamas mean?

Alternative form of singkamas.

Where does sincamas come from?

From Philippine Spanish síncamas, from Early Modern Spanish jícamas, plural of jícama (“jicama”), from Classical Nahuatl xīcama, apocopic form of xīcamatl.

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