kumara

kumara — 名詞

1. a sweet potato that people cook and eat as a vegetable

1.名詞C1
釋義

地瓜；甘藷

可食用的甜番薯

a sweet potato that people cook and eat as a vegetable

例句

Talia roasted a kumara and packed it into her lunch box.

Talia 烤了一顆地瓜，放進她的午餐盒裡。

countable use: roast a kumara

At the market, Kwame chose three kumaras for the family stew.

在市場裡，Kwame 挑了三條地瓜，準備煮一鍋家庭燉菜。

plural countable use

同義詞
  • sweet potato

    the broad everyday English term for the same root vegetable

  • yam

    often confused with it in shops, but it usually names a different crop

  • root vegetable

    a much broader category term, not this specific food

文法句型

roast a kumara

grow kumaras

kumara chips

用法筆記

The word often appears in cooking, market, and gardening contexts. Speakers may use it for one whole root or for the ingredient in a prepared dish such as kumara chips or soup.

常見錯誤

❌I roasted kumara and packed it into one lunch box.
✅I roasted a kumara and packed it into one lunch box.
💡Use an article when you mean one whole root.
❌The recipe needs kumara, so I used white potatoes.
✅The recipe needs kumara, so I used sweet potatoes.
💡Kumara means a sweet potato, not an ordinary white potato.