单词 | potato leaf |
释义 | > as lemmaspotato leaf potato leaf n. ΚΠ 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xv. 430 These creatures [sc. locusts] came in great swarms to devour their Potato-leaves and other Herbs. 1818 Times 18 Aug. 3/4 [The men] had been actively employed in the manufacture of tea for some of the Dublin grocers, from the following materials:—Black and Deadly Night Shade..Ivy Leaves..Potato leaves, when in season. 1917 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre Life of Grasshopper xx. 438 The caterpillar of Acherontia atropos, the Death's-head Hawk-moth, eats its fill of potato-leaves. 1994 Org. Gardening Feb. 44/2 Husky plants are sturdy, with that distinctive crinkled, ‘potato-leaf’ kind of foliage. < as lemmas |
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