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ampalaya

ampalaya noun: bitter melon.

Noun

ampalaya (plural ampalayas)

  1. (Philippines) bitter melon
    • As we can all guess correctly, bitterness was obtained from plants like the ampalaya.2016, Micky Fenix, “What the early Filipinos ate at the time of the Spaniards”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer

Forms of ampalaya

pluralampalayas

Origin of ampalaya

From Tagalog ampalaya.

Questions about ampalaya

What does ampalaya mean?
Ampalaya means bitter melon.
What part of speech is ampalaya?
Ampalaya is a noun.
What is the plural of ampalaya?
The plural of ampalaya is ampalayas.

Words near ampalaya in the dictionary

  1. ampacity
  2. ampage
  3. ampages
  4. ampakine
  5. ampakines
  6. ampalaya
  7. ampalayas
  8. ampallang
  9. ampallangs
  10. Ampang
  11. ampangabeite

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