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fei•jo•a•da
(Port. fā′zhŏŏ ä′dä; Eng. fā jwä′də),USA pronunciation n. [Brazilian Cookery.]
- Fooda dish of rice and black beans baked with various kinds of meat and sausage.
- Greek phásēlos; see -ade1
- Latin faseolus, diminutive of fasēlus a legume, perh. the cowpea
- Brazilian Portuguese, derivative of Portuguese feijão bean, earlier feijoes (plural)