• Shona word hupe in the Shona Dictionary
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hupe
/ɦupé/

• noun , class(5)
• variant: hupi
• dialects/origins: Zezuru

English translation

bulb

A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.