oca

How to use oca in a sentence

• This oca is a tuberous root, of an oval shape and pale red colour, but white inside.

  Popular Adventure Tales | Mayne Reid

• The oca (Oxalis tuberosa) is an oval-shaped root; the skin pale red, and the inside white.

  Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests | J. J. von Tschudi

• Of this verb we have only xa, and there is another substantive verb gui, which itself takes oca in its conjugation.

  The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt | Daniel G. Brinton

• The carabinieri came at a double to the rescue of the Victorious Tartuca, for the men of the oca were attempting to mob him.

  A Little Pilgrimage in Italy | Olave M. (Olave Muriel) Potter

• At Occobamba, or the pampa where oca grows, we found fields of that useful tuber, just now ripening.

  Inca Land | Hiram Bingham