Cush-cush (Noun)
Meaning
Tropical American yam with small yellow edible tubers.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- In many Caribbean households cush-cush yams are served at traditional family gatherings as a symbol of cultural heritage.
- Farmers who specialize in cultivating tropical tubers, like the cush-cush yam, rely on natural fertilizers and conservation techniques to ensure the health of the plants.
- Residents from Guyana still indulge in cooking methods involving the cush-cush as passed down by generations.
- Grown along mountain ridges the cush-cush serves to boost incomes and offers regional resilience during famines in their island homeland.
- Over its popularity is competing alternatives - despite serving meals infused by delicate rich aromas characteristic from tender and thoroughly-boiled cush-cush meals being showcased from contemporary cookbook magazine highlights