英语词汇cush-cush的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cush-cush
词源	cush-cush. This South American relative of the yam is also called the yampee. Diosorea trifida, which grows in the wild, is valued for its edible orange-colored tubers, but no one seems to know how it got the unusual name cush-cush.
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