| 单词 | native potato |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnative potato native potato n. any of several plants with edible tuberous roots; esp. (a) Australian the potato orchid, Gastrodia sesamoides, of Tasmania; (b) South African the madumbi or taro, Colocasia esculenta; (c) Australian the twining plants Marsdenia viridiflora and M. flavescens (family Asclepiadaceae), of New South Wales. (also) the root of any of these plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > other root vegetables or plants producing them skirret-root1565 Spanish nut1597 oca1604 tuckahoe1612 sisyrinchium1629 sedge-root1648 arrowroot1681 breadroot1756 tannia1756 rush nut1783 wapato1796 cous1806 prairie turnip1811 prairie potato1828 native potato1833 murnong1836 Tartarian bread1836 biscuitroot1837 tobacco-root1845 amadumbi1851 chufa1860 yam-bean1864 parsnip chervil1866 tiger-nut1887 yautia1899 wasabi1903 1833 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies 2 Jan. (1843) 119 I dug up a Gastrodium sesamoides..sometimes called Native Potato. 1858 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 557 The sisinyane, the native potato, which lives for ever, like the Jerusalem artichoke, and is bitter and waxy to the taste. 1888 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 3 515 ‘Native potato’..tubers were roasted and eaten by the Tasmanian natives. 1953 R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice 148 He fished a hot madumbi, or native potato, out of the pot. 1981 D. Levitt Plants & People 34 Native Potato (Marsdenia viridiflora). < as lemmas |
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