utazi

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Noun

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utazi (uncountable)

  1. (Nigeria) The plant Gongronema latifolium, with edible leaves.
    Synonym: arokeke
    • 1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 185:
      Matefi whose turn it was to cook for Ezeulu that night (they had kept count even in his absence) had already started preparing utazi soup.

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