chayote
see chocho.
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Also † chayota, † cheyote. [a. Sp. chayote, ad. Nahuatl chayotli.] A vine, Sechium edule, native to tropical America and cultivated elsewhere for its fruit; the succulent squash-like fruit of this vine. Also called chocho.
| 1884 tr. A. de Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Plants 274 The chayote was not cultivated in Cayenne ten years ago. 1884 Health Exhib. Catal. 159/1 Farinaceous Roots and Fruits.—Red Batata, Fruits of Chayota. 1889 in Cent. Dict., Cheyote. 1975 E. L. Ortiz Caribbean Cooking (1977) 217 Many islands make a mock applesauce from papaya..or from chayote (christophene). 1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking ii. 97 The products of the land are..plants like..mirlitons, which others call ‘chayotes’. |