chufa U.S.
(ˈtʃuːfə)
The Earth Almond (Cyperus esculentus) a plant producing small tubers about the size of a bean. (In F. souchet comestible or amande de terre.)
| 1860 Bartlett Dict. Amer., Earth Almond, a perennial, indigenous to southern Europe, growing in the form of a rush some three feet high, producing small tubers the size of a common bean, and called by the Valencians ‘Chufas’. 1879 Louisville (U.S.) Home & Farm 15 Apr., My hogs had no corn. They had abundance of chufas with the run of potato pinder and pea fields. |