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quispina

quispina noun: a coarse bread made from quinoa.

Noun

quispina (uncountable)

  1. A coarse bread made from quinoa.
    • The Indians also boil the seeds of the quinua for food, and eat the leaves, and the grain boiled, and ground down, is made into hard little lumps, and is then called quispina.1908, C. D. Mackellar, A Pleasure Pilgrim in South America, London, J. Murray, page 291
    • Cooking has also been reported to remove 'kispina'1993, R. Macrae, Richard Kenneth Robinson, Michèle J. Sadler, Encyclopaedia of Food Science, Food Technology, and Nutrition, →ISBN

Forms of quispina

alternative formkispina

Questions about quispina

What does quispina mean?
Quispina means a coarse bread made from quinoa.
What part of speech is quispina?
Quispina is a noun.

Words near quispina in the dictionary

  1. quism
  2. quisms
  3. Quispamsis
  4. Quispe
  5. Quispes
  6. quispina
  7. quisqouse
  8. quisqualate
  9. quisqualates
  10. quisqualic acid
  11. quisqueite

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