| 单词 | sweet potato |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweet potato sweet potato n. the edible tuber of a perennial vine, Ipomœa batatas, native to South America and widely cultivated elsewhere. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > sweet potato potato1565 batata1577 potato root1583 Spanish potato1599 red batata1696 Virginia potato1715 sweet potato1750 yam1753 kumara1773 boniato1800 camote1842 Carolina potato1848 Carolina1884 mickey1936 kau kau1937 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > sweet potato batata1577 potato root1583 red batata1696 sweet potato1750 yam1753 kumara1773 camote1842 Carolina1884 1750 J. Birket Some Remarks Voy. N. Amer. 9 They have..abundance of..the Sweet Potatoe. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 84 They cultivate..the esculent Convolvulus, (vulgo) sweet potatoes. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 126 The plant carried to Ireland by Captain Hawkins, in 1565, was the Spanish batata, or sweet potato. 1972 Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. i. 233 Sweet potato is now grown throughout the tropics. 1976 M. H. Kingston Woman Warrior (1977) 79 My mother liked to look at the ducks and plan how she would dig a pond for them near the sweet potato field. < as lemmas |
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