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kaniwa

kaniwa noun: a goosefoot of species Chenopodium pallidicaule, native to the Andean region, and similar in character and uses to the closely related quinoa.

kaniwa: a goosefoot of species Chenopodium pallidicaule, native to the Andean region, and similar in...
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Noun

kaniwa (uncountable)

  1. A goosefoot of species Chenopodium pallidicaule, native to the Andean region, and similar in character and uses to the closely related quinoa.

kaniwa meaning in Tamil

kaniwa in Tamil

சீமைதினை அரிசி

Forms of kaniwa

alternative formkañiwa
alternative formcanihua
alternative formcañihua
alternative formcañahua

Origin of kaniwa

Borrowed from Spanish cañihua, from Quechua qañiwa.

Questions about kaniwa

What does kaniwa mean?
Kaniwa means a goosefoot of species Chenopodium pallidicaule, native to the Andean region, and similar in character and uses to the closely related quinoa.
What is kaniwa in Tamil?
Kaniwa in Tamil is சீமைதினை அரிசி. See Kaniwa meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kaniwa?
Kaniwa is a noun.

Words near kaniwa in the dictionary

  1. Kanishka
  2. Kaniut
  3. Kaniuts
  4. Kaniv
  5. Kaniva
  6. kaniwa
  7. Kanizsa triangle
  8. Kanizsa triangles
  9. Kanjeevaram
  10. kanji
  11. kanjified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kaniwa (page history and authors); kaniwa (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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