| 单词 | indian potato |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian potato Indian potato n. any of various North American plants producing edible tubers, bulbs, etc., or the tuber, bulb, etc., of any of these plants; esp. †(a) the yam (genus Dioscorea) (obsolete); (b) the American groundnut, Apios tuberosa (also called potato bean); (c) any of several plants of the genus Ipomoea, which includes the sweet potato, I. batatas. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > yam > yam plant Indian potato1752 yam-vine1792 yellow yam1836 1752 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 6) at Dioscorea The Yam, or Indian Potato. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 323 Potatoe, Indian, Dioscorea. ?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 170/1 Apios americana. The Indians gather the Roots of this Plant which they roast or boil... The Traders call them Indian Patates. 1812 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Apr. 297 These people ate..another species of the same genus, the convolvulus panduratus, which is still known in some parts of the United States, but the name of ‘Indian potato’. 1870 I. Raymond Southland Writers 891 Healing plants of great medicinal virtue, and nutritious fruits, such as the Indian potato and palmetto cabbage. 1920 C. F. Saunders Useful Wild Plants of U.S. & Canada 17 They [sc. edible bulbs] have been drawn upon for food by white travelers and settlers—the most palatable species being of the genera Calochortus, Brodiaea and Camassia, and commonly called ‘Indian potatoes’. 1999 Alton (Illinois) Tel. 10 Apr. b 4/1 Sweet potato, yam,..Indian potato—whatever name it goes by, it tastes great and is a favourite vegetable of autumn. < as lemmas |
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