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ducunu

ducunu is the alternative form of duckanoo.

Meaning of duckanoo

Noun

duckanoo (plural duckanoos)

  1. A Caribbean dessert made with sweet potato, coconut, spices and brown sugar, all tied up in a banana leaf.
    • The mixtures are wrapped and tied in banana leaf parcels and steamed. Names for these steamed cakes are boyo, duckoono, tie-a-leaf, and blue drawers, as the leaf stains the pudding a faint bluish color.2015, Linda Bladholm, Latin & Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified, page 343

Forms of ducunu

pluralducunus

Questions about ducunu

What is ducunu the alternative form of?
Ducunu is the alternative form of duckanoo.

Words near ducunu in the dictionary

  1. ductways
  2. ductwork
  3. ductworks
  4. Ducuing
  5. Ducuings
  6. ducunu
  7. ducunus
  8. dud
  9. Duda
  10. Duda-Epureni
  11. dudaim

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ducunu (page history and authors); duckanoo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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