A tropical South American plant with edible starchy tubers, similar to a potato.
From Spanish 'arracacha,' derived from the Quechua language of the Andes. The word traveled from indigenous South American agriculture into Spanish and then English colonial trade terminology.
The arracacha is grown across the Andes and Caribbean but remains almost unknown in most of the world—it's actually more nutritious than potatoes but lost out in global agriculture to European crops after colonization, a forgotten vegetable story.
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