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kangkong en · NOUN

Etymology

From Tagalog kangkong and Indonesian kangkung.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica), grown for food in parts of Southeast Asia.
   • Not long after the plantation was declared bankrupt, people had arrived to put up boundary stakes, clear away the water hyacinths and vast tangles of kangkong, and plant the marsh with rice. 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1:
   • Germination rates of local kangkong cultivars are often low (<60%) because of hard-seededness induced by long storage. 2004, GJH Grubben, Vegetables, page 334:

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Descendants

kangkong