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Quinoa is the small seeds of a plant that first grew in the , in South America. You cook them in water, rather like rice, until they go soft and a tiny ring shows on each seed. The taste is mild, a little nutty. In the last twenty years the word has become common in cafés and health-food shops, far from the mountains where people have eaten it for a very long time. Say it KEEN-wah, not “kwin-oh-ah”. It is an ordinary food word now — a little trendy on city menus, not a science-class word.
藜麥
組成Borrowed from Spanish quinua, from Quechua kinwa, the plant’s own name. Not related to quinine, even though both passed through Spanish from Andean languages.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
quinoanoun/ˈkiːn.wɑː/
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A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds.
- Chenopodium quinoa Will, (quinoa) is native to the Andes, and the seeds are a staple grain in parts of South America. The newly formed Canadian Quinoa Association anticipated growing about 400 ha of quinoa annually (Anonymous 1992e).
- Quinoa was cultivated about 3,000 years ago in the Andes mountain region, and was the favored crop of the Incas, who used it as a sacred plant in rituals.
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The high-protein dried fruits and seeds of this plant, used as a food staple and ground into flour.
- Turn the heat up to medium-high, add the quinoa, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Quinoa is another of those foods that keeps getting miscategorized—everyone thinks it′s a grain, everyone uses it like a grain, but it′s actually a seed.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。