telingo potato

Questions about telingo potato

What does telingo potato mean?

telingo potato means "putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber".

What is another word for telingo potato?

Close synonyms include pungapung, elephant yam, Amorphophallus paeonifolius, Amorphophallus campanulatus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is telingo potato a common word?

telingo potato is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.