2. Noun. A type of simple fishing vessel found on the coast of East Africa. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mashua
1. a tuber plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mashua
Literary usage of Mashua
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Peru, During the Years 1838-1842: On the Coast, in the Sierra by Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1847)
"The mashua is the root of a plant as yet unknown to botanists. ... As the mashua
roots will not keep, they are not transported from the places in which they ..."
2. The Amazon Provinces of Peru as a Field for European Emigration: A by Herbert Guillaume (1888)
"The mashua is cultivated and cooked in the same manner as those already described.
... The Indians use the mashua as a medicine; they consider it an ..."
3. A History of Egypt by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Joseph Grafton Milne, Stanley Lane-Poole, William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1905)
"We see that, the generic term mashua implying Tunisia, we find two of the names
in Tunisia, and two within a ..."
4. The American School Readers by Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1911)
"Ocello made him promise to go in the morning early for potatoes, and oca, and
mashua,1 which are two other tubers like potatoes which grow there. ..."
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