| 单词 | oca tuber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoca tuber More fully oca plant: a South American oxalis, Oxalis tuberosa, cultivated for its edible tubers and sometimes for its acid leaves and flowers. Also (more fully oca tuber): a tuber of this plant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > other root vegetables skirret1338 pease earthnut1548 skirret-root1565 rampion1573 Tragopogon1578 oca1604 tuckahoe1612 groundnut1636 sedge-root1648 breadroot1756 tannia1756 rush nut1783 wapato1796 cous1806 vegetable oyster1806 prairie turnip1811 prairie potato1828 murnong1836 Tartarian bread1836 biscuitroot1837 yam-bean1864 tiger-nut1887 wasabi1903 ramp1946 sunchoke1955 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 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xviii. 261 The Papas and Ocas be the chiefe for nourishment and substance. 1688 P. Rycaut tr. G. de la Vega Royal Comm. Peru viii. xii There is another sort which they [sc. Peruvians] call Oca, of a very pleasant taste; it is long, and thick as a man's little finger. 1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. I. v. vii. 302 The oca is a root about two or three inches in length..covered with a very thin and transparent skin, whose colour is in some yellow, in some red, and others orange. It is eaten..boiled or roasted. 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 431 In the hot plains, they planted maize, and the occa, or oxalis. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 113 Rows of Indian girls..were sitting in the plaza before their little heaps of chuñus, ocas, potatoes, and other provisions. 1885 W. Miller tr. Veg. Garden (Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie) 355 The Oka-plant is easily propagated from the tubers. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 471/3 The oka plant.., a native of Peru,..produces tubers which can be used as vegetables. 1966 New Scientist 9 June 643/1 Quinoa, papalisa, oka and isaño are plants [in Bolivia] which produce crops with higher nutritive value and protein content than wheat, maize and rice. 1972 Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. 221 The young leaves and flowers of the Spanish-American oca..are used in soups and as a pot-herb, and the flowers serve as a kind of vinegar substitute in salads. It is cultivated, however, for the sake of its egg-sized tubers, which are an important staple in Mexico and the Andean states. 1988 New Scientist 2 June 55/2 Oca (oh-kah) is the second most important tuber crop after potatoes. 2002 Science 3 May 807/3 The protein ocatin accounts for up to 60% of the soluble protein in oca tubers and also turns out to have antipathogen activities. < as lemmas |
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