chufa Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
    yellow nutgrass; ground almond; Cyperus esculentus; rush nut; earth almond.

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Chu"fa noun
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  1. (Bot.) A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

Webster 1913