Any of several Central and South American plants, of the genus Xanthosoma
The edible tuber of these plants, some of which have medicinal value
Translations
Italian: malanga
Sostantivo malangaf (plurale: malanghe)
malanga
: ... mentre Ursula e i bambini si rompevano la schiena nell’orto per coltivare il banano e la malanga , la manica e l’igname, la ahuyama e la melanzana. — Cent’anni di solitudine by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from Spanish by Enrico Cicogna; ISBN 88-04-48336-9; page 12, line 21