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ariá

ariá noun: guinea arrowroot: the plant Goeppertia allouia, grown for its edible tubers.

Noun

ariá

  1. (uncommon) Guinea arrowroot: the plant Goeppertia allouia, grown for its edible tubers.
    • 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
    • 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

Origin of ariá

Brazilian Portuguese ariá.

Questions about ariá

What does ariá mean?
Ariá means guinea arrowroot: the plant Goeppertia allouia, grown for its edible tubers.
What part of speech is ariá?
Ariá is a noun.

Words near ariá in the dictionary

  1. Arizonians
  2. arizonite
  3. arizonites
  4. Arizpe
  5. Arizpes
  6. ariá
  7. Ariège
  8. Arjeplog
  9. Arjona
  10. Arjonas
  11. Arjun

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