ḳwododon kwaḍo (Kano), Amorphophallus Barteri, N.E. Br. (and other similar species of Aroideæ), an oddly shaped plant of the Arum lily family, with a flat lurid purple spathe. Syn. [maḳworin maḳwododo] and [buran kare], q.v.
kwokiya, a var. of melon; vide under [guna].
kwokwo or ḳoḳo, a small var. of calabash; vide under [duma].
kwosusu, the second annual crop of indigo, said to be better than the first; vide under [baba].
kwoton tadawa, vide under [duma].
kwotowa (Sok.), Pergularia tomentosa, Linn. (Asclepiadeæ); vide [fatakka].
kyamro or kyauro, k. kibiya, Saccharum spontaneum, Linn. (Gramineæ). A tall grass of river-banks and wet places with white plume-like flowering panicle. Stems commonly used for arrow-shafts. Syn. sheme, and ?sansari (Illo; used for arrows with detachable head). Sometimes referred to as abokin kibiya.
ḳyara, Cymbopogon Ruprechtii, Hack. (Gramineæ). A very common tall grass with sharp long-awned spikelets; used for zana after the spikelets have fallen.
ḳyasuwa or ḳansuwa, Pennisetum pedicellatum, (and P. setosum) (Gramineæ). A coarse tall grass with fluffy flowering heads; a common pest in waste places in towns, &c. Syn. fura (Kano and East). Sometimes distinguished from a somewhat similar grass of wet places as ḳ. tudu or ḳ. waje. cf. [duza].