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callaloo

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cal⋅la⋅loo

  [kal-uh-loo, kal-uh-loo]
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–noun Southern Cookery.
a thick soup of crabmeat, greens, and various seasonings.
Origin:
1695–1700; cf. Jamaican E calalu any of a variety of greens used as an ingredient in soup < AmerSp calalú, Pg carurú, said to be < Tupi caárurú thick leaf
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cal·la·loo   (kā'lə-lōō', kā'lə-lōō')   
n.  

  1. The edible spinachlike leaves of the dasheen.

  2. A soup or stew made of these leaves or other greens, okra, crabmeat, and seasonings.


[American Spanish calulú, plant of genus Xanthosoma whose leaves are used as greens, perhaps from Tupi caárurú, thick leaf.]
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