mauka

名词 n. 副词 adv.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The flowering Andean root vegetable Mirabilis expansa, which was important to the Incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level.
  2. One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.
副词 adv.
  1. inland, towards the mountains. Hawaii,not-comparable

词形变化

maukas plural

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词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka (“landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland”).
词源 2
From Aymara mauka (“mauka (Mirabilis expansa)”).
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