oca

American  

[oh-kuh] / ˈoʊ kə /

Or oka

noun

1. a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.

2. a tuber of this plant.

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oca British  

/ ˈəʊkə /

noun

1. any of various South American herbaceous plants of the genus Oxalis, cultivated for their edible tubers: family Oxalidaceae

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Etymology

Origin of oca

1595–1605; < Spanish < Quechua oqa

Example Sentences

Each house, or oca, is named for its “owner” and architect—in this case, a man named Kwakway.

From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2022

Ocol haa, syncopated to ocola, and even oca, was the usual term for Christian baptism.

From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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

From Popular Adventure Tales by Reid, Mayne

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

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Bingham, Hiram

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

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison