noun
succotash
SUK-uh-tash/ˈsʌkətæʃ/
A dish of corn and lima beans, sometimes with other vegetables.
The succotash combines yellow corn with pale-green lima beans.
Etymology
The source is a Southern New England Algonquian corn term, possibly Narragansett misckquatash, 'boiled whole kernels of corn.' The name came to denote corn cooked with beans, especially lima beans.
In context
that we turned into raisins drying things like apricots or apples and the Native Americans drying pumpkin and using that for months in the future for something like a wonderful succotash.
More examples
- She served succotash beside the roast.
- Peppers added color to the succotash.
- The recipe made enough succotash for six people.
Forms
succotash