chufaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

chufa (countable and uncountable, plural chufas)

1. Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
   • 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 119:

     Chufa is most popular in two places in the Mediterranean, Spain and Egypt (especially around Damietta). In Spain, especially in the region of Valencia, chufa is used to make a drink called horchata.

   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 6, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     The chinese water chestnut and the tiger nut, or chufa, are both members of the sedge family, a group of water grasses that includes papyrus.

同意語

• chufa sedge, yellow nutsedge, tigernut sedge, earthalmond

Further reading

• Cyperus esculentus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cyperus esculentus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cyperus esculentus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• fauch