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Noun: salsilla
  1. Tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia
    - Bomarea salsilla
     
  2. Tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America
    - Bomarea edulis

Derived forms: salsillas

Type of: vine

Part of: Bomarea, genus Bomarea

Encyclopedia: Salsilla

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Salpidae
salpiglossis
Salpiglossis sinuata
Salpinctes
Salpinctes obsoletus
salpingectomy
salpingitis
salpinx
salsa
salsify
salsilla
Salsola
Salsola kali
Salsola kali tenuifolia
Salsola soda
SALT
salt
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salt cod
salt depletion
salt flat