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kangkung

kangkung is the alternative form of kangkong.

Meaning of kangkong

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

Questions about kangkung

What is kangkung the alternative form of?
Kangkung is the alternative form of kangkong.

Words near kangkung in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kangkung (page history and authors); kangkong (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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