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Meaning of kangkong | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica), grown for food in parts of Southeast Asia.

Equivalents

Français kangkong

Examples

“Germination rates of local kangkong cultivars are often low (<60%) because of hard-seededness induced by long storage.”

“Not long after the plantation was declared bankrupt, people had arrived to put up boundary stakes, clear away the water hyacinths and vast tangles of kangkong, and plant the marsh with rice.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

Kangla Kangladesh Kangladeshi Kangle Kanglei Kangleicha

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