| 单词 | prairie turnip |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie turnip prairie turnip n. the edible starchy root of a North American plant, Pediomelum esculentum of the family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae) (also called breadroot); the plant itself; cf. prairie apple n., prairie potato n. 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 1811 H. M. Brackenridge Jrnl. 14 June in Views Louisiana (1814) 249 The prairie turnip is a root very common in the prairies, with something of the taste of the turnip, but more dry. 1857 J. Palliser Jrnls. (1863) 38 The root..receives the name of the Prairie Turnip by the half-breeds, who, with Indians, use it as food. 1941 D. McCowan Naturalist in Canada 246 The Crees and the Blackfeet were glad to make a meal from the edible root of the Prairie Turnip. 2003 Grand Forks (N. Dakota) Herald (Nexis) 14 June a4 My aunt told me she used to feed cooked prairie turnips to her mother-in-law when the mother-in-law was old and very ill. prairie turnip b. Applied to plants of other genera having roots or tubers like those of the turnip, as Indian turnip, lion's turnip, prairie turnip: see these words; also St. Anthony's turnip, the bulbous buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus; wild turnip = Indian turnip (in both uses). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for sheep turnip1548 wild turnip1597 broouage1610 French turnip1731–3 brush-turnip1799 break1805 old man saltbush1866 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip > turnip plant > plants resembling turnip1597 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 182 Lyons Turnep [Leontopetalon] is of force to digest. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 94 Psoralea esculenta,..the Indian Turnip,..used as food by the aborigines. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 427 Arisæma triphyllum, Indian Turnip. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 176/1 B[ryonia] dioica, the Common Bryony... The root is used..as a purgative; but it is unsafe from its uncertain and sometimes violent action, whence the French call it Devil's-turnip. 1894 Gibson in Harper's Mag. 565 The wild arum of Great Britain..the foreign counterpart of our well known jack-in-the-pulpit, or Indian turnip. < as lemmas |
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