A South American plant or herb, possibly used for medicinal or nutritional purposes in traditional cultures.
This term appears to come from Quechua or another Andean indigenous language, borrowed into Spanish and then English through ethnobotanical documentation.
Many plant names from the Andes come through Spanish borrowing from Quechua—like 'quinoa'—and anthropologists and ethnobotanists are working to preserve knowledge of these traditional plants before it's lost.
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