Surinamen.
/s(j)ʊərᵻˈnam/, /ˈs(j)ʊərᵻnam/, U.S. /ˈsurəˌnɑm/, /ˈsurəˌnæm/ A variety of potato. ?Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of
baker1651
Irish potato1664
sprout1771
London lady1780
ox-noble1794
pink-eye1795
kidney1796
Suriname1796
round1800
yam potato1801
bluenose1803
yam1805
bead-potato1808
Murphy1811
lumper1840
blue1845
salmon1845
merino1846
regent1846
pink1850
redskin potato1851
fluke1868
snowflake1882
magnum1889
ware1894
snowdrop1900
King Edward1902
Majestic1917
red1926
fingerling1930
Pentland1959
chipper1961
Maris Peer1963
Maris Piper1963
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato
potato1629
Rough Red1771
sprout1771
London lady1780
russet1780
ox-noble1794
pink-eye1795
kidney1796
Suriname1796
silver-skin1797
yam potato1801
bluenose1803
yam1805
bead-potato1808
lumper1840
blue1845
merino1846
regent1846
pink1850
redskin potato1851
fluke1868
mangel-wurzel potato1875
snowflake1882
snowdrop1900
pomato1905
Idaho1911
Majestic1917
red1926
Pentland1959
1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. Red and white Surinam, a sort of potatoes.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 635 The ox-noble, Surinam, Irish purple, Howard or clustered, and red potatoes, are for fodder.
Compounds
C1. attributive. Designating specific names of animals, plants, and products. Cf. Sranan n.
a.
Suriname bunting n.
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1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. 212 Surinam B[unting]... Bigger than a Lark, but like it in colour... Inhabits Surinam.
Suriname darter n.
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1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 626 Surinam D[arter]... It is often domesticated by the inhabitants, and known to them by the name of the Sun Bird.
Suriname falcon n.
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1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 84 Surinam F[alcon]. Falco sufflator, Lin.
Suriname grass n.
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1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 300 Surinam Grass. This plant was lately introduced to Jamaica.
Suriname medlar n.
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1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §506 The Surinam Medlar (Mimusops Elengi).
Suriname quassia n.
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1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 675 Surinam Quassia Tree is the representative of a genus very closely allied to Picræna.
Suriname rat n.
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. Index Surinam rat, the phalanger, a small monkey.
Suriname shrew n.
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1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. ii. 536 Surinam Shrew. Sorex Surinamensis.
Suriname sprat n.
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1854 Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 101 The most singular situation of the eyeball..is that of the Surinam sprat.
Suriname tern n.
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1776 P. Brown Nouvelles Illustr. de Zool. 98 Pl. 39 The Surinam Tern... Size of a black bird.
b. In names of pidgin or creole languages spoken in Suriname.
Suriname Negro-English n.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > pidgins and creoles > [noun] > English-based > Taki-Taki
talkee-talkee1807
Suriname Negro-English1934
Sranan1957
Suriname Taki-Taki1967
1934 Amer. Speech 9 181 (heading) Surinam Negro-English.
1964 Language 40 291 Sranan (also known as..Surinam Negro-English).
Suriname Taki-Taki n.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > pidgins and creoles > [noun] > English-based > Taki-Taki
talkee-talkee1807
Suriname Negro-English1934
Sranan1957
Suriname Taki-Taki1967
1967 R. I. McDavid in G. V. Bobrinskoy Lang. & Areas 86 A viable language in its own right—like Surinam Taki-taki.
C2.
Suriname bark n. the bark of species of Andira, or that of Cinchona magnifolia, used in medicine.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific barks
mezereona1500
cortex1680
Jesuits' bark1694
tellicherry bark1734
slippery elm1748
white cinnamon1751
mezereum1754
canella1756
royal bark1794
cinchona1800
rohun bark1820
false Winter's bark1830
calisaya bark1837
mezereon bark1837
Suriname bark1844
carony bark1853
Honduras bark1881
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > cinchona tree or bark
Peruvian bark1663
quinquina1681
Jesuits' Bark1704
quinaquina1708
quinquina1740
cinchona1742
quill bark1742
grey bark1781
red bark1782
bark-tree1783
yellow bark1794
cinchona-bark1811
crown bark1823
Loxa bark1825
Suriname bark1844
Lima bark1855
quinine tree1855
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > cabbage-bark tree > bark
worm-barkc1791
Suriname bark1844
1844 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. (ed. 2) Surinam Bark, worm bark. The bark of the Andira inermis, or Cabbage-bark tree.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Surinam-bark, a cinchona bark of indifferent quality, the produce of Cinchona magnifolia.
Suriname cherry n. (a) a South American tree, Malpighia glabra, or its edible aromatic fruit; (b) an evergreen shrub or small tree, Eugenia uniflora, native to tropical America; also, its edible red fruit.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun]
tamarind1539
zizypha1546
guava1555
tuna1555
turpentine1562
mango1582
mammee1587
durian1588
lychee1588
sapota1589
fritter1591
mangosteen1598
custard apple1648
longan1655
mammee sapota1657
mammee apple1683
breadfruit1697
coco-plum1699
rambutan1707
pawpaw1709
locust bean1731
sapodilla1750
cherimoya1758
wild lime1767
Otaheite apple1777
narra1779
langsat1783
rose apple1790
cinnamon apple1796
sapota plum1797
bhindi1809
salak1820
gingerbread plum1824
geebung1827
loquat1829
sapodilla plum1830
sage-apple1832
kangaroo-apple1834
karaka-fruit1834
quandong1836
mombin1837
terap1839
zapote1842
tamarind plum1846
prairie pea1848
Barbados-cherry1858
kei-apple1859
Natal plum1859
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
Sierra Leone peach1866
Turkey fig1866
marula1877
scarlet banana1885
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
pear apple1898
ume1918
pepino1922
Chinese gooseberry1925
num-num1926
acerola1954
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > of South America or West Indies > other South American or West Indian fruits
mammee1587
coco-plum1699
water-sop1716
icaco1752
cherimoya1758
West India mango1774
vegetable pear1777
cinnamon apple1796
jaboticaba1824
butternut1827
Quito orange1846
Barbados-cherry1858
mountain mango1861
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
acerola1954
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of tropical America > other American fruit-plants
guava1555
anchovy pear1657
river pear1696
sour-sop tree1696
monkey apple1750
stopper-berry tree1750
sour-sop1753
chocho1756
sweet plum1796
pequi1819
Spanish plum1823
jaboticaba1824
christophene1830
Quito orange1846
pepino1850
mountain mango1861
chayote1884
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
choko1902
1895 ‘F. Franceschi’ Santa Barbara Exotic Flora 33 The Surinam Cherry..[is] growing too in Montecito.
1920 N. L. Britton & C. F. Millspaugh Bahama Flora 304 Eugenia uniflora... Native of South America. Surinam Cherry.
1972 C. D. Adams Flowering Plants Jamaica 522 Surinam Cherry. Shrub to 2·5 m. high;..berries red, edible.
Suriname poison n. a tropical leguminous plant, Tophrosia toxicaria, or the poison derived from the leaves.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisons from plants
aconitum?a1450
aconite1569
cocculus indicus1591
female-bane1601
timbo1725
Suriname poison1756
ipoh1779
upas1783
tanghin1788
picrotoxin1815
nicotine1817
strychnine1819
vauqueline1819
brucia1820
brucine1820
picrotoxia1823
strychnia1823
digitalin1824
dulcamara1828
conine1829
bikh1830
nicotia1830
atropine1836
menispermia1837
nicotina1838
solanine1838
strychnina1838
tanghicin1838
urari1838
conia1842
conicine1842
amanitine1847
oenanthin1848
menispermine1849
tetanine1857
hyoscyamine1858
barbasco1860
nicotylia1862
antiarin1863
xylostein1864
oleandrin1866
zebra poison1871
andromedotoxin1883
abrin1884
ouabain1888
strophanthus1888
toxiresin1890
manchineel1891
tuba1898
taxine1907
phytotoxin1909
oenanthotoxin1911
hypoglycin1954
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > other plants yielding poison
Suriname poison1756
wolfwort1765
tuba1839
strophanthus1888
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 296 Surinam Poison... This plant has been introduced to Jamaica,..on account of its intoxicating qualities.
Suriname toad n. (also Suriname water toad) a large flat toad, the pipa n.1
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Opisthocoela > family Pipidae > member of genus Pipa (suriname toad)
pipa1712
Suriname toad1774
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 108 The Pipal, or the Surinam Toad.
1896 Proc. Zool. Soc. 5 May 595 One of the females of the Surinam Water-Toad..with her back covered with eggs.
Derivatives
surinamine n. (surinamina) Chemistry an alkaloid supposed to be contained in Suriname bark.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > alkaloids > [noun] > miscellaneous other
daturia1820
piperine1820
opiane1824
daturine1825
aconitine1826
serpentaria1829
solania1830
fagine1833
aconitia1834
buxine1836
porphyroxine1838
surinamine1838
staphisaïne1842
lobeline1844
passiflorine1846
aricine1847
arnicine1847
harmaline1847
papaverine1848
pelosine1851
colchicine1853
helleborin1853
parvoline1855
punicin1855
aconella1864
fluavil1864
physostigmine1864
herapathite1865
ratanhine1868
sipeerine1868
staphisagrine1868
codamine1870
rhoeagenine1870
aconelline1871
helleborein1871
helleboresin1871
helleboretin1871
meconidine1871
napelline1871
hyoscine1872
porphyrine1872
septicine1872
paytine1873
reducine1875
hydrastine1876
pelosia1876
veratralbia1876
aconine1878
piturine1878
paytamine1879
skatol1879
tropidine1879
pelletierine1881
thalictrine1881
tetano-cannabine1883
cupreine1884
scopoleine1885
trigonelline1886
hydrastinine1887
jaborine1887
scopoline1887
apomorphine1888
imperialine1888
tetanine1888
tongine1890
guvacine1891
veratralbine1891
veratroidine1891
scopolamine1892
corybulbine1893
corycavine1893
corytuberine1893
septentrionaline1894
theophylline1894
pellotine1895
yohimbenine1897
ibogaine1902
scopine1923
nornicotine1927
norephedrine1929
pyrrolizidine alkaloid1951
psilocin1958
psilocybin1958
sodide1977
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 290 Of Surinamina. This alkali was discovered in 1824, by M. Overduin, in the bark of the Geoffroya Surinamensis.
1852 W. Gregory Handbk. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 366 Surinamine and Jamaicine are two alkaloids, found in Geoffrœa Surinamensis and G. inermis.
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