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quinoa
/ˈkin.wɑ/
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KEEN-wah has two syllables.
KEEN-wah has two syllables and first-syllable stress. Kee-NOH-uh is another listed American pronunciation.
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“A quinoa salad.”
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noun
- A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds.
- The high-protein dried fruits and seeds of this plant, used as a food staple and ground into flour.
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/ˈkin.wɑ/
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Maize, tobacco, quinoa, and the mandico plants have been cultivated so long that their wild originals have quite disappeared.
The quinoa is a species of plant of the same genus as our pig-weeds.