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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Sp.]

(Bot.)

A sedgelike plant (

Cyperus esculentus

) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

See also: chufa, chūfā, and chǔfá

chufá

(Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of chufar.