A crumbly, cake-like food preparation or bread-like substance, sometimes made from legumes or grain.
From Spanish or Mesoamerican languages; possibly related to words for corn-based foods in indigenous American cuisines.
This word appears in Spanish colonial records describing indigenous foods that Europeans didn't have words for—it's evidence of how 'discovery' meant learning new vocabulary as much as finding new places.
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