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kangkong

kangkong noun: water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica), grown for food in parts of Southeast Asia.

Noun

kangkong (uncountable)

  1. Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica), grown for food in parts of Southeast Asia.
    • Germination rates of local kangkong cultivars are often low (<60%) because of hard-seededness induced by long storage.2004, GJH Grubben, Vegetables, page 334
    • Not long after the plantation was declared bankrupt, people had arrived to put up boundary stakes, clear away the water hyacinths and vast tangles of kangkong, and plant the marsh with rice.2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1

Forms of kangkong

alternative formkangkung
alternative formkankun

Origin of kangkong

From Tagalog kangkong and Indonesian kangkung.

Questions about kangkong

What does kangkong mean?
Kangkong means water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica), grown for food in parts of Southeast Asia.
What part of speech is kangkong?
Kangkong is a noun.

Words near kangkong in the dictionary

  1. Kangiqsualujjuaq
  2. Kangiryuarmiutun
  3. Kangjam
  4. Kangjei
  5. Kangju
  6. kangkong
  7. kangkung
  8. Kangla
  9. Kangladesh
  10. Kangladeshi
  11. Kangladeshis

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