chaya

/CH AY1 AH0/

noun

1
A large, fast-growing leafy perennial Mexican shrub which is popular in Mexico and Central America as a leafy vegetable, cooked and eaten like spinach, from species Cnidoscolus aconitifolius or Cnidoscolus chayamansa.
2
A teahouse in Japan.
3
(Judaism) One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to the personality.
4
A female given name from Hebrew.

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