salsilla meaning

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salsilla (noun): tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia.

salsilla has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

salsilla as a noun

  1. tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia

    Synonyms: Bomarea salsilla

    Type of: vine

  2. tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America

    Synonyms: Bomarea edulis

    Type of: vine

Scrabble score: 8 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with SA · words ending in LA · 8-letter words

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